Mapping indefinites: towards a Neo-Aristotelian map

The semantic map that Haspelmath (1997) offered for indefinite pronouns is highly valuable, but it is problematic and too simple about the relation between the meaning of the indefinite pronoun itself, its context, and the resulting meaning-in-context. As a representation of the meaning-in-context, it is claimed that one should go back to the Square of Oppositions, more particularly, to a three layered ‘Neo-Aristotelian’ representation of this square

Mapping indefinites : towards a Neo-Aristotelian map

The semantic map that Haspelmath (1997) offered for indefinite pronouns is highly valuable, but it is problematic and too simple about the relation between the meaning of the indefinite pronoun itself, its context, and the resulting meaning-in-context. As a representation of the meaning-in-context, it is claimed that one should go back to the Square of Oppositions, more particularly, to a three layered ‘Neo-Aristotelian’ representation of this square