"paucal" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise keele struktuur

a `pro-form'. Syntactically, most pronouns function like noun phrases. Some pronouns have morphological characteristics that nouns do not have (`case', person, gender, number). Pronoun subclasses: central: personal, reflexive, possessive reciprocal: each other, one another relative: the wh-series, that interrogative: the wh-series demonstrative: this, these, that, those indefinite, positive, universal: all, both, each, every indefinite, positive, assertive: the some series, multal and paucal, one; half, several, enough, other, another indefinite, positive, non-assertive: the any series, either indefinite, negative: the no series, neither Morphological characteristics: - case: I/me - person: I/you/she - gender: he/she/it - number: I/we; this/these According to structure: Simple: I, we, that, some Compound: myself, somebody Composite: each other, one another Grammatical categories: a) Case in Old English pronoun system: 1st 2nd