Pronouns
1. Relatively short.
2. Very irregular in derivation and inflection.
3. Affixal or clitic.
4. Grammatical related to classes of nouns. - Nida (1949), a pag.149 There are certain symbols which (1) stand for other symbols or (2) mark relationships between symbols. Pronouns illustrate the first type. [...] The meaning of any pronoun must be defined in terms of the linguistic symbols for which it may sustitute. Such an environment is strictly limited, though sometimes it is possible to provide nonlinguistic parallels from the practical world [...] - Nida (1949), a pag.153
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