Comparative Concept: specific known pronoun (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
specific known pronoun (cxn)
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Alias(se) | specific known pronoun |
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a pronoun that expresses a specific known referent. Example: if Masha met with someone near the university is used in a context where the speaker knows the identity of the person Masha met, then someone is a specific known pronoun expressing a specific known referent. (Section 3.5)