PronType: pronominal type
In English, this feature applies to pronouns, determiners and pronominal adverbs.
Prs: personal or possessive personal pronoun or determiner
See also the Poss feature that distinguishes normal personal
pronouns from possessives. Note that Prs also includes reflexive
personal/possessive pronouns.
Examples
The following pronouns have this feature:
- I, you, he, she, it, we, they, my, your, his, her, its, our, their, mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs, me, him, us, them, myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, youselves, theirselves
Art: article
Article is a special case of determiner that bears the feature of definiteness.
Examples
In English, the following three determiners have this feature:
- a, an, the
Int: interrogative pronoun, determiner or adverb
Note that the possessive interrogative determiner (whose) can be distinguished by the Poss feature.
In English, all words with the PTB tag WDT, WP, WP$ or WRB have this feature unless
they mark the beginning of a relative clause.
Examples
- Which one should I get?
- Who was elected president?
- Whose car is this?
- How old is he?
Rel: relative pronoun or determiner
All pronouns and determiners that mark the beginning of a relative clause have this feature.
Examples
- The book that I read
- The book which she bought
- The book whose author was arrested
Dem: demonstrative determiner or adverb
Examples
The following determiners and adverbs have this feature:
- this, that, those, these, here, there
Note that that only has this feature when it is being used as a demonstrative determiner. If it is used to mark the beginning of a clausal complement or a relative clause it does not have this feature.
Emp: emphatic pronoun
Examples
The following pronouns can have this feature:
- myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Note that the -self pronouns only have this feature when used emphaticaly, as in 1., but not when they are used directly as arguments, as in 2., in which case they should be treated as personal pronouns
- Thomas himself said so (himself: PronType=Emp)
- Thomas saw himself in the mirror (himself: PronType=Prs)
Neg: negative pronoun or determiner
Examples
The following pronouns and determiners have this feature:
- none, no
Rcp: reciprocal pronoun
Examples
Used for the following fixed expressions:
- each other, one another
Tot: total pronoun or determiner
Examples
The following pronouns and determiners have this feature:
- all, both
Ind: indefinite pronoun or determiner
Examples
The following pronouns and determiners have this feature:
- some, any
PronType in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gn] [gub] [gun] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kpv] [ky] [la] [myu] [pcm] [qpm] [sga] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [zh]