DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaproper vs. common
Categoria grammaticaleAG
Linguainglese
SiglaNida (1949)
TitoloMorphology. The descriptive analysis of words
Sinonimi 
Rinviigrammatical category (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

Pronouns 1. Relatively short. 2. Very irregular in derivation and inflection. 3. Affixal or clitic. 4. Grammatical related to classes of nouns.
- Nida (1949), 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), Pag. 153