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I (pronoun)
In Modern English, I is the singular, first-person pronoun. Morphology (linguistics) and Objective case#English In Standard Modern English, I has five distinct word forms: I: the nominative (subjective) form I is the only pronoun form that is always capitalized in English. This practice became established in the late 15th century, though lowercase i was sometimes found as late as the 17th century. me: the accusative (objective) forms (the accusative case is also called the 'oblique'.
Inalienable possession
In linguistics, inalienable possession (abbreviated ) is a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by its possessor. Nouns or nominal affixes in an inalienable possession relationship cannot exist independently or be "alienated" from their possessor. Inalienable nouns include body parts (such as leg, which is necessarily "someone's leg" even if it is severed from the body), kinship terms (such as mother), and part-whole relations (such as top).
Exophora
In pragmatics, exophora is reference to something extratextual, i.e. not in the immediate text, and contrasts with endophora. Exophora can be deictic, in which special words or grammatical markings are used to make reference to something in the context of the utterance or speaker. For example, pronouns are often exophoric, with words such as "this", "that", "here", "there", as in that chair over there is John's said while indicating the direction of the chair referred to.
Cataphore (grammaire)
En linguistique, le terme ayant la forme française cataphore a été formé par le linguiste allemand Karl Bühler des éléments grecs anciens κατά (katá) « en bas » et φέρω (phéro) « je porte », donnant le mot καταφορά (kataphorá), par analogie avec le terme ἀναφορά (anaphorá) « anaphore ». C’est un phénomène syntactico-sémantique qui consiste en l’anticipation, par un élément linguistique ayant le statut de substitut, d’une entité également linguistique (mot, groupe de mots, phrase simple, phrase complexe) exprimée par la suite, ex.
English determiners
English determiners (also known as determinatives) are words – such as the, a, each, some, which, this, and six – that are most commonly used with nouns to specify their referents. The determiners form a closed in English. The syntactic role characteristically performed by determiners is known as the determinative function (see ). A determinative combines with a noun (or, more formally, a nominal; see ) to form a noun phrase (NP). This function typically comes before any modifiers in the NP (e.g.