PRON: pronoun
Definition
Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context. Pronouns in Megrelian are of the following types: personal (PronType=Prs), demonstrative (PronType=Dem), possessive (Poss=Yes), determinal/reflexive (PronType=Tot), indefinite (PronType=Ind), interrogative (PronType=Int), relative (PronType=Rel), reciprocal (PronType=Rcp), negative (PronType=Neg), determinal (PronType=Tot) and Reflexive (Reflex=Yes). In comparison with other nominals, the inflectional paradigms of the aforementioned pronoun types are very irregular; some of them follow the rules of the nominal declensions and exhibit different forms based on agreement between person, case and number, while others do not. Additionally, in Megrelian, pronouns often have particles added to them, indicating their type, see PartType.
Correspondance between language specific PoS and PronTypes
Pron: Pronoun
- Pers (personal pronoun): PronType=Prs
- Dem (demonstrative pronoun): PronType=Dem
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Poss (possessive pronoun): Poss=Yes PronType=Prs - Ind (indefinite pronoun): PronType=Ind
- Int (interrogative pronoun): PronType=Int
- Neg (negative pronoun): PronType=Neg
- Reflex (reflexive pronoun): Reflex=Yes
- Rel (relative pronoun): PronType=Rel
- Recp (reciprocal pronoun): PronType=Rcp
- Tot (determinal pronoun): ProntType=Tot
Examples
- personal pronouns: მა (mɑ) ‘I’ etc.
- demonstrative pronouns: ათეგვარი (ɑtɛɡvɑri) ‘such’ etc.
- possessive pronouns: ჩქიმი (t͡ʃkimi) ‘my’ etc.
- indefinite pronouns: მითინი (mitini) ‘someone’ etc.
- interrogative pronouns: მი//მინ//მინი (mi//min//mini) ‘who’ etc.
- negative pronouns: მითა (mita) ‘nobody’ etc.
- reflexive pronouns: თვითონ (tvitɔn) ‘himself, herself or itself’ etc.
- relative pronouns: მუჭომი (mut͡ʃʼɔmi) ‘what kind of’ etc.
- reciprocal pronouns: ართიანი (ɑrtiɑni) ‘each other’ etc.
- determinal pronouns: ირი (iri) ‘each’ etc.
PRON in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [naq] [nci] [nmf] [no] [oge] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [xmf] [yue] [zh]