What is a personal pronoun?

Definition
	A personal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a distinction of person deixis.

Examples (English)
	I he she it we they inflected forms such as me, my, mine, etc.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of personal pronouns:
	What is an emphatic pronoun? What is a possessive pronoun? What is a reflexive pronoun?

Sources
	Hartmann and Stork 1972 168
	Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985 347
	Mish 1991 878

Context for this page:

Concept module: personal pronoun
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): P
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Linguistics

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