Glossary term P

Personal Pronoun

A personal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a distinction of person deixis.

(English)

  • I
  • he
  • she
  • it
  • we
  • they
  • inflected forms such as me, my, mine, etc.

More specific concepts within personal pronoun.

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 168
  2. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 347
  3. Mish 1991, 878
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