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
Armenian 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, այդ “that” is traditionally called pronoun in Armenian grammar, regardless of context (for the notion of determiners in some Armenian grammars, terms exist like attributive pronouns or pronominal adjectives).
To make the annotation parallel across languages, it should be now tagged PRON in Այդ քո՞ մեքենան է։ “Is that your car?” and DET in Ես այդ մեքենան երեկ եմ տեսել։ “I saw that car yesterday.”
Examples
- personal pronouns: ես, դու, նա, մենք, դուք, նրանք “I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they”
- possessive pronouns (which usually stand alone as a nominal): իմը, քոնը, նրանը, մերը, ձերը, նրանցը “mine, yours, his/hers/its, ours, yours, theirs”
- demonstrative pronouns: սա, դա, նա “this, that, that”
- reflexive pronouns: իր, իրեն, իրենց “myself, yourself, oneself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves”
- reciprocal pronouns: մեկմեկու (մեկմեկի), միմյանց, իրար “one another, each other, each other”
- interrogative pronouns: ո՞վ, ի՞նչ “who, what” as in Ի՞նչ ես կարծում։ “What do you think?”
- relative pronouns: ով, ինչ “who, what” as in Արա, ինչ ուզում ես։ “Do whatever you like.”
- indefinite pronouns: մի քանիսը, մեկը, մեկնումեկը, ոմանք, ուրիշը “several people, one, anyone, some people, another one”
- emphatic pronouns։ ինքը, իրենք “(he) himself, (they) themselves”
- total pronouns: ամենը, ամենքը, ամեն մեկը, ամեն ոք, ամեն ինչ, բոլորը, յուրաքանչյուրը, յուրաքանչյուր ոք, ողջը, ամբողջը “all (of things), all (of people), everyone, avery body, everything, all (of people), each one, each one, whole, all”
- negative pronouns: ոչ ոք, ոչինչ, ոչ մեկը “nobody, nothing, no one”
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]