Personal pronouns
Standard English
personal pronouns:
You | Thou | We |
They | Them | It
Parts of speech:
Subjective
Possessive
Determinacy:
Dummy
Generic you
Singular they
Inclusive and
exclusive we
Pluralis majestatis
T-V distinction
Gender issues:
Androgynous
Gender-specific
Gender-neutral
Spivak | Ve | Xe |
Ze | Sie/hir
Slang:
Y'all | Yinz
Other languages:
French, personal
Spanish
Portuguese
Chinese
Japanese
Vietnamese
In linguistics and
grammar, a pronoun (Lat:
pronomen) is a pro-form
that substitutes for a noun
(or noun phrase), such as,
in English, the words it
(substituting for the name
of a certain object) andhe
(substituting for the name
of a person). The replaced
noun is called the
antecedent of the
pronoun.
For example, consider the
sentence "Lisa gave the
coat to Phil." All three
nouns in the sentence can
be replaced by pronouns:
"She gave it to him." If the
coat, Lisa, and Phil have
been previously
mentioned, the listener
can deduce what the
pronounsshe, it and him
refer to and therefore
understand the meaning
of the sentence; however,
if the sentence "She gave
it to him." is the first
presentation of the idea,
none of the pronouns
have antecedents, and
each pronoun is therefore
ambiguous. Pronouns
without antecedents are
also called unprecursed
pronouns. English
grammar allows
pronouns to potentially
have multiple candidate
antecedents. The process
of determining which
antecedent was intended
is known asanaphore
resolution.
Types of pronouns
Common types of
pronouns found in the
world's languages are as
follows:
Personal pronouns
stand in place of the
names of people or
things:
Subjective
pronouns
are used when the
person or thing is
thesubject of the
sentence or
clause. English
example:I like to
eat chips, but she
does not.
Second person
formal and
informal
pronouns
(T-V distinction).
For example,
vous and tu in
French. There is
no distinction in
modern English
though
Elizabethan
English marked
the distinction
with
"thou" (singular
informal) and
"you" (plural or
singular formal).
Inclusive and
exclusive
"we" pronouns
indicate whether
the audience is
included. There
is no distinction
in English.
Intensive
pronouns
, also known as
emphatic
pronouns, re-
emphasize a
noun or
pronoun that has
already been
mentioned.
English uses the
same forms as
for the reflexive
pronouns; for
example: I did it
myself (contrast
reflexive use, I
did it to myself).
Objective
pronouns
are used when the
person or thing is
the object of the
sentence or
clause. English
example: John likes
me but not her.
Direct and
indirect object
pronouns
. English uses the
same forms for
both; for
example: Mary
loveshim (direct
object); Mary
senthim a letter
(indirect object).
Reflexive
pronouns
are used when a
person or thing
acts on itself.
English example:
John cut
himself.
Reciprocal
pronouns
refer to a
reciprocal
relationship.
English example:
They do not like
each other.
Prepositional
pronouns
come after a
preposition. No
distinct forms exist
in English; for
example: Anna
and Maria looked
athim.
Disjunctive
pronouns
are used in
isolation or in
certain other
special
grammatical
contexts. No
distinct forms exist
in English; for
example: Who
does this belong
to?Me.
Dummy
pronouns
are used when
grammatical rules
require a noun (or
pronoun), but
none is
semantically
required. English
example:It is
raining.
Weak pronouns.
Possessive
pronouns
are used to indicate
possession or
ownership.
In a strict sense,
thepossessive
pronouns
are only those that
act syntactically as
nouns. English
example: Those
clothes aremine.
Often, though, the
term "possessive
pronoun" is also
applied to the so-
called
possessive
adjectives
(or possessive
determiners).
For example, in
English: I lostmy
wallet. They are
not strictly
speaking
pronouns[citation
needed] because
they do not
substitute for a
noun or noun
phrase, and as
such, some
grammarians
classify these
terms in a
separate lexical
category called
determiners (they
have a syntactic
role close to that
ofadjectives,
always qualifying
a noun).
Demonstrative
pronouns
distinguish the
particular objects or
people that are
referred to from other
possible candidates.
English example: I'll
take these.
Indefinite pronouns
refer to general
categories of people or
things. English
example:Anyone can
do that.
Distributive
pronouns
are used to refer
to members of a
group separately
rather than
collectively.
English example:
To each his own.
Negative
pronouns indicate
the non-existence
of people or
things. English
example:Nobody
thinks that.
Relative pronouns
refer back to people or
things previously
mentioned. English
example: Peoplewho
smoke should quit
now.
Indefinite
relative
pronounshave
some of the
properties of both
relative pronouns
and indefinite
pronouns. They
have a sense of
"referring back",
but the person or
thing to which
they refer has not
previously been
explicitly named.
English example: I
knowwhat I like.
Interrogative
pronouns
ask which person or
thing is meant. English
example:Who did
that?
In many
languages (e.g.,
Czech, English,
French,
Interlingua, and
Russian), the sets
of relative and
interrogative
pronouns are
nearly identical.
Compare English:
Who is that?
(interrogative) to I
knowwho that is.
(relative).
Pronouns and
determiners
Pronouns and
determiners are closely
related, and some
linguists think pronouns
are actually determiners
without a noun or a noun
phrase.[1] The following
chart shows their
relationships in English.
Pronoun
Determiner
Personal (1st/2nd)
we
we Scotsmen
Possessive
ours
our freedom
Demonstrative
this
this gentleman
Indefinite
some
some frogs
Interrogative
who
which option
The views of different
schools
Pronouns have been
included inparts of
speech since at least the
2nd Century BC where
they were included in Art
of Grammar. Strict
objections against this
approach have appeared
among grammatical
theories in the 20th
century. Their
grammatical
heterogeneity, many-
sided pronouns were
underlined, which were
classified as follows:
«indicative words»
(Karl Brugmann, Karl
Bühler, Uriel
Weinreich);
«indexes» or
«indicators» (Charles
Sanders Peirce,
William Edward
Collinson
);
«words with
changeable
signification» (Adolf
Noreen);
«moveable identifiers»
(Otto Jespersen,
Roman Jakobson);
«updating» or «means
of transferring from
language to speech»
(Charles Bally, Émile
Benveniste);
words of «subjective-
objective lexical
meaning» (Alexey
Peshkovsky);
«word remnants» or
«substitutes» (Lev
Shcherba, Leonard
Bloomfield, Zellig
Harris);
«represents»
(Ferdinand Brunot);
«survivals of special
part of speech» (Viktor
Vinogradov), etc.
"Azerbaijan Linguistic
School
" denies independence of
pronoun, it is not
considered to be an
independentpart of
speech, because relations
between pronouns and
otherparts of speech are
not equal and mutually
exclusive, since the
properties of pronouns
overlap with otherparts
of speech as a subset of
them. But this contradicts
the second law of "logic
division" (which reads:
"Members of division
should be mutually
exclusive, i.e. should not
overlap").
Dismemberment of all
majorparts of speech first
to general and particular
and then to abstract and
concrete types shows that
the place of abstract-and-
general form of each part
of speech is empty. The
conclusion is that this is a
pronoun which is
traditionally (by historical
inertia or under influence
authority of ancient
schools) separated from
the other parts of speech,
gathered in one class and
called a pronoun. On the
basis of this logic this
school considers it
appropriate to distribute
pronouns among other
parts of speech.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
PRONOUN
12:25 AM
Ravi mishra
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