Comparative Concept: first person pronoun (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
first person pronoun (cxn)
| Typ | construction (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | first person pronoun • first person |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | first person pronoun (cxn) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
a personal pronoun used for contextual - reference to a person in their role as speaker. The term is conventionally used also for a pronoun referring to a group of persons, one of whom is the speaker. Example: I and we are first person pronouns, the former referring to the speaker and the latter to a group including the speaker. (Section 3.1.1)