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 some
languages traditionally extend 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 the same way across languages.
For instance, [en] this is either pronoun (I saw this
yesterday.) or determiner (I saw this car yesterday.) Its
Czech translation, [cs] tohle, is traditionally called pronoun in
Czech grammar, regardless of context (the notion of determiners does
not exist in Czech grammar). To make the annotation parallel across
languages, it should be now tagged PRON in Tohle jsem viděl
včera. and DET in Tohle auto jsem viděl včera.
Examples
- personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they
- reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, theirselves
- demonstrative pronouns: this as in I saw this yesterday.
- interrogative pronouns: who, what as in What do you think?
- relative pronouns: who, what as in I wonder what you think. (Note, however, that some relative clause introducing words, such as [en] that are better analyzed as subordinating conjunctions (otherwise known as “complementizers” in the literature), and so are tagged as SCONJ.)
- indefinite pronouns: somebody, something, anybody, anything
- totality pronouns: everybody, everything
- negative pronouns: nobody, nothing
References
PRON in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]