PRON: pronoun
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
Pronouns under this definition function like nouns. Note that
Russian grammar traditionally extends the term pronoun to words that
substitute for adjectives. Such words are not tagged PRON
under our universal scheme. They are tagged as determiners in
order to annotate the same thing same way across languages.
For instance, ‘это “this” is traditionally called pronoun in
Russian grammar, regardless of context (the notion of determiners does
not exist in Russian grammar). To make the annotation parallel across
languages, it should be now tagged PRON in Я видел это вчера. “I saw this yesterday.” and DET in
Я видел эту машину вчера. “I saw this car yesterday.”
Examples
- personal pronouns: я, ты, он, она, оно, мы, вы, они “I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they”
- reflexive pronouns: себе, сам “oneself”
- demonstrative pronouns: это as in Я видел это вчера. “I saw this yesterday.”
- interrogative pronouns: кто, что “who, what” as in Что ты думаешь? “What do you think?”
- relative pronouns: кто, что “who, what” as in Мне интересно, что ты думаешь. “I wonder what you think.”
- indefinite pronouns: кто-то, что-то “somebody, something”
- total pronouns: каждый, все “everybody, all”
- negative pronouns: никто, ничто “nobody, nothing”
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]