Datapoint Kriol/Indefinite pronouns

The forms of the indefinite pronouns in question are samthing~jamjing and sambadi~jambadi~sambala~ jambala. These are regarded as analyzable as the components also recur in na-jing 'nothing', enijing 'anything', nobadi 'nobody', enibadi 'anybody', samwe 'somewhere', samtaim 'sometimes', etc.The suffix in the variant sam-bala is the general adjectival suffix in NPs referring to humans, thus its status would be comparable to English one.

Values

Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something

Example 25-128:
Sambadi bin get meda.
Sambadi
somebody
bin
pst
get
pass
meda.
murdered
Somebody got murdered.
Example 25-129:
Laik yunmi taimap jamjing, intit.
Laik
like
yunmi
1du.incl
tai-im-ap
tie-tr-up
jamjing,
something
intit.
tag
Like you and I tie up something, right?
Example 25-130:
Bat sambala bin tok: "Yu labda kaman; woda gada gajimap wi." Gudjob thad olgumen bin lafta mub.
Bat
but
sam-bala
some-adj2
bin
pst
tok:
say
"Yu
2sg
labda
oblig
kaman;
come
woda
water
gada
fut/oblig
gajimap
reach:tr
wi."
1pl
Gud-job
good-job
thad
dem
olgumen
woman
bin
pst
lafta
oblig
mub.
move
But some people said: "You have to come (because) the water is going to reach us." Just as well that woman had to move.

Source: Angelo et al. 1998

Confidence:
Certain