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Pronouns: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 1 by Dean Liu and Version 2 by Dean Liu.

Pronouns are a grammatical class of words that can function as the heads of noun phrases and participate in reference to entities, properties, or situations identifiable through linguistic context or the communicative situation [1]. Their grammatical properties vary according to language and pronoun subtype and may include distinctions in person, number, gender, case, and reflexivity. Major categories include personal, reflexive, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, and indefinite pronouns, although classifications and the boundaries between pronouns and other word classes differ among grammatical frameworks [1][2]. Pronouns are distinguished from lexical nouns by their grammatical and referential properties, while their interpretation may depend on antecedents in discourse, the immediate speech context, or the meaning of the expression itself [2].

  • grammatical categories
  • anaphora
  • deixis
  • noun phrases

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References

  1. Rodney Huddleston. Introduction to the Grammar of English; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1984. [CrossRef]
  2. Rodney Huddleston; Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2002. [CrossRef]
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