PronType: pronominal type
| Values: | Art | Dem | Emp | Int | Prs | Rcp | Rel |
This feature typically applies to pronouns and determiners
Art: article
Article is a special case of determiner that bears the feature of definiteness.
Examples
- I go see one pastor “I went to see a pastor”
- nobody know wetin to call di ting. “Nobody knows what to call the thing”
Dem: demonstrative determiner or adverb
Example
- na me park dis car “I’m the one who parked this car”
Emp: emphatic determiner
Emphatic determiners emphasize the nominal they depend on. There are similarities with reflexive and demonstrative pronouns / determiners.
Example
- dat oder person sef im leave pikin for house “that other person too left their child at home”
Int: interrogative pronoun, determiner or adverb
Adverbial pronouns such as wetin, what, which, who, whoever whose have this value unless they mark the beginning of a relative clause or a cleft .
Example
- who know wetin make di trailer driver lose control of im steer “who knows what made the driver of the trailer lose control of the steer ?”
Prs: personal pronouns
See also the Poss feature that distinguishes normal personal
pronouns from possessives. Note that Prs also includes reflexive
personal/possessive pronouns.
The personal pronouns of Naija include me, I/a, ma, you, your, him, im, e, am, we us, our, una, de
Example
- dem go carry dis one “they will carry this one”
- forget im “forget him”
Rcp: reciprocal pronoun
Example
- we we
- una una
- dem dem
Rel: relative pronoun
Example
- dis are di things dat make shawarma “These are the things that make shawarma”
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]