INDEFINITE ARTICLE  

PRONOUN MODIFYING a NOUN to SHOW that its REFERENCE IS NOT DEFINITE.
Hypernym
  • PRONOUNNOUN REPLACING ANOTHER NOUN. []
    • NAMESPEAK so as to REFER to something OR WORD USED for REFERRING to something.
      • WORDSOUND IMAGE of a CONCEPT. (Leibniz, Couturat p. 432)
        • SOUNDWHAT CAN be HEARD....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Yī 一 is used very much like an Indo-European indefinite article, from Zhuangzi onwards.<br>

Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

    Words

    一  yī OC: qliɡ MC: ʔit 132 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • v[adN]some one thingCH
    • vadNarticlea; a certain; some
    其  qí OC: ɡɯ MC: gɨ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adN:adV:.adSWhen a(ny) given (hypothetical) N V-s, then SCH
    他  tā OC: lʰaal MC: thɑ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNan N

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: