A bound variable pronoun (also called a bound variable anaphor or BVA) is a pronoun that has a quantified determiner phrase (DP) – such as every, some...
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a variable may be said to be either free or bound. Some older books use the terms real variable and apparent variable for free variable and bound variable...
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Singular they (redirect from Gender-neutral third person singular pronoun in English)
in terms of bound variables, a term borrowed from logic. Pinker prefers the terms quantifier and bound variable to antecedent and pronoun. He suggests...
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Logophoricity (redirect from Logophoric pronoun)
find that in the place where logophoric pronouns would typically occur, non-clause-bounded reflexive pronouns (or long-distance reflexives) appear instead...
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English intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form. In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent...
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linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...
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[every man] c-commands the other pronoun [he] and a bound variable reading is possible as the pronoun 'he' is bound by the universal quantifier 'every...
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pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent. Indefinite pronouns are in contrast to definite pronouns. Indefinite pronouns...
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A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here the...
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third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have...
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Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third...
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Coreference (section Relation to bound variables)
– The pronoun his is an example of a bound variable No studenti was upset with hisi grade. – The pronoun his is an example of a bound variable Quantified...
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In linguistics, a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for...
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A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit...
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A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun that indicates a reciprocal relationship. A reciprocal pronoun can be used for one of the participants of a reciprocal...
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In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the...
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Donkey sentence (redirect from Donkey pronoun)
semantics, a donkey sentence is a sentence containing a pronoun which is semantically bound but syntactically free. They are a classic puzzle in formal...
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Possessive (redirect from Possessive pronoun)
used in this way is called a substantive possessive pronoun, a possessive pronoun or an absolute pronoun. Some languages, including English, also have possessive...
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T–V distinction (redirect from Du (personal pronoun))
of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name comes from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. The...
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A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts. Disjunctive pronominal forms...
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A resumptive pronoun is a personal pronoun appearing in a relative clause, which restates the antecedent after a pause or interruption (such as an embedded...
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themselves) use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive pronoun because it functions as an adverbial or adnominal...
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Pro-form (redirect from Correlative pronoun)
(limiting the variables of a proposition). Pro-forms are divided into several categories, according to which part of speech they substitute: A pronoun substitutes...
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Demonstrative (redirect from Demonstrative pronoun)
determiners, which specify nouns (as in Put that coat on), and demonstrative pronouns, which stand independently (as in Put that on). The demonstratives in English...
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Interrogative word (redirect from Interrogative pronoun)
English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses (The country where he was born) and certain...
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A prepositional pronoun is a special form of a personal pronoun that is used as the object of a preposition. English does not have a distinct grammatical...
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pronoun is replaced by a bound variable. This leads to the rule of semantic interpretation that takes pronouns and changes them into bound variables....
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quantified formula must contain a bound variable and a subformula specifying a property of the referent of that variable. The most commonly used quantifiers...
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Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, and determiner...
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