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 Ukrainian 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, це “this” is traditionally called pronoun in Ukrainian grammar, regardless of context (the notion of determiners does not exist in Ukrainian grammar). To make the annotation parallel across languages, it is now tagged PRON in Це я бачила вчора. “I saw this yesterday.” and DET in Це дерево я бачила вчора. _ “I saw this tree yesterday.”
Examples
- personal pronouns: я, ти, він, вона, воно, ми, ви, вони “I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, they”
- reflexive pronouns: себе, се, собі, собою “oneself”
- demonstrative pronouns: це as in Це я бачила вчора. “I saw this yesterday.”
- interrogative pronouns: хто, що “who, what” as in Що ти думаєш? “What do you think?”
- relative pronouns: хто, що “who, what” as in Мене цікавить, що ти думаєш. “I wonder what you think.”
- indefinite pronouns: дехто, дещо “somebody, something”
- total pronouns: кожен, всі “everybody, all”
- negative pronouns: ніхто, ніщо “nobody, nothing”
References
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]