PRON: pronoun
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
Specializations of pronouns correspond to different language specific PoS leading to different values for the PronType feature.
Correspondance between language specific PoS and PronTypes
- PC (clitic pronouns) → PronType=Clit
- PD (demonstrative pronouns) → PronType=Dem
- PE (personal pronouns) → PronType=Prs
- PI (indefinite pronouns) → PronType=Ind
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PP (possessive pronouns) → PronType=Prs Poss=Yes - PQ (interrogative pronouns) → PronType=Int
- PR (relative pronouns) → PronType=Rel
Note: the PronType=Clit feature is specific for Italian.
Examples
- clitic pronouns: ci, si, vi, la, lo, gli, including reflexive pronouns
- demonstrative pronouns: questo, codesto, coloro, medesimo, quello, ciò as in Questo è strano “This is strange”
- personal pronouns: io, tu, te, lui, lei, egli, esso, noi, loro
- indefinite pronouns: uno, altri, qualcuno, qualcosa, ciascuno
- possessive pronouns: mio, suo, loro
- interrogative pronouns: chi, che, cosa, quanto, quale as in Cosa pensi? “What do you think?”
- relative pronouns: che, cui, quale as in Il film che ho visto. “The movie that I have seen”
- totality pronouns: tutti, tutto
- negative pronouns: nessuno, niente, nulla
PRON in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [nci] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]