a pronoun that is associated with the bottom end of the information status continuum, where the identity of the referent is not known to speaker or hearer (or both). This includes pragmatically specific referent, pragmatically nonspecific referent, and various categories of nonspecific referents (see Table 3.4 and Sections 3.4–3.5). Example: in Something is under the bed, something is an example of an indefinite pronoun, used in a context where the referent is not identifiable by the hearer. (Table 3.4, Section 3.3.1)