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PronType: pronominal type

Description

This feature typically applies to pronouns, determiners, pronominal numerals (quantifiers) and pronominal adverbs. This feature is used for pro-words that are not under PRON part of speech, e.g. pro-adjectives and pro-adverbs.

Prs: Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are pretty standard, most Uralic languages will have at least singulars and plurals in first, second and third person. Some will also include duals as well as inclusive and exclusive first persons.

Personal examples

Rcp: Reciprocal pronouns

Reciprocal pronouns refer to number of things each, most typically two people at each other.

Reciprocal examples

Rel: Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns are used with relative clauses.

Relative examples

Dem: Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are: this, that and it, and their plurals.

Demonstrative examples

Ind: Indefinite pronouns

Pronouns that refer to indefinite quantities or qualities of nouns, in some grammars overlaps with e.g. quantifier pronouns (which do not exist in Universal features).

Indefinite examples

Art: Article pronouns

For words that are articles. Mainly used in Uralic dependencies for Hungarian, or loans from other related languages.

Article examples

None in Finnish.

Neg: Negative pronouns

Negative pronouns are lexically negative by themselves. They are not used in Universal dependencies for pronouns that go with negation, e.g. not with [fi] ei koskaan, ei mikään etc.

Negative examples

None in Finnish.

Tot: Total / collective pronouns

Total pronouns are used for some collectives.

Total examples

None in Finnish


PronType in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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