In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression (linguistics) that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase...
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Pronoun (section Pronoun versus pro-form)
the prop-word one) is a pronominal. Pronoun is a category of words. A pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses...
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One (pronoun) (section Pronoun vs pro-form)
colloquial alternatives such as generic you. The noun one can also be used as a pro-form (e.g. "The green one is an apple"), which is not to be confused with the...
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Personal pronoun (section Pronoun vs pro-form)
as pro-forms, but there are pronouns that are not pro-forms and pro-forms that are not pronouns.[p. 239] It's a good idea. (pronoun and pro-form) It's...
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pro-form. For example, in the sentence "John arrived late because traffic held him up," the word "John" is the antecedent of the pronoun "him." Pro-forms...
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English pronouns (section Pro-forms)
English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase...
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Protein precursor (redirect from Precursor form)
precursor, also called a pro-protein or pro-peptide, is an inactive protein (or peptide) that can be turned into an active form by post-translational modification...
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broader, but not the narrower, sense). Usually, an anaphoric expression is a pro-form or some other kind of deictic (contextually dependent) expression. Both...
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Possessive (redirect from Possessive form)
A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated POS or POSS; from Latin: possessivus; Ancient Greek: κτητικός, romanized: ktētikós) is a word or grammatical construction...
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pronoun what and the interrogative adverbs when, where, whither, whence. See pro-form for a full table. As mentioned above, while the primary function of demonstratives...
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