PRON: pronoun
Description
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context. Pronouns are used for nominals references without intrinsic semantic value, some pronouns have defective case paradigms but usually resemble nouns in their paradigms.
Pro-words of other parts of speech than noun are common in Uralic languages, in the current Universal scheme they are still categorised under the respective non pro part of speech, i.e., ADJ for pro-adjectives, ADV for pro-adverb and so forth.
Examples
- [fi] minä “I”, me “we”, nämä “these”
- [fi] sama “same”, kaikki “all”
- [fi] joku “someone”, jokin “something”
- [fi] toinen “other”, itse “self”, jokainen “every”
- [fi] ei mikään “none, not any”
PRON in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]