Pro-form, the Glossary
In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context.[1]
Table of Contents
29 relations: Adjective, Adverb, Binding (linguistics), Clause, Correlative, Demonstrative, Determiner, French language, Function word, Generalized quantifier, Interrogative word, Japanese language, L. L. Zamenhof, Linguistics, Morphological derivation, Noun, Noun phrase, Part of speech, Phrase, Pro-sentence, Pro-verb, Pronoun, Relative pronoun, Semantics, Sentence (linguistics), Standard Chinese, Verb, Verb phrase, Word.
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Pro-form and adverb are parts of speech.
Binding (linguistics)
In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents.
See Pro-form and Binding (linguistics)
Clause
In language, a clause is a constituent or phrase that comprises a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate.
Correlative
In grammar, a correlative is a word that is paired with another word with which it functions to perform a single function but from which it is separated in the sentence. Pro-form and correlative are parts of speech.
Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. Pro-form and Demonstrative are parts of speech.
See Pro-form and Demonstrative
Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers. Pro-form and Determiner are parts of speech.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
See Pro-form and French language
Function word
In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. Pro-form and function word are parts of speech.
See Pro-form and Function word
Generalized quantifier
In formal semantics, a generalized quantifier (GQ) is an expression that denotes a set of sets.
See Pro-form and Generalized quantifier
Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.
See Pro-form and Interrogative word
Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
See Pro-form and Japanese language
L. L. Zamenhof
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See Pro-form and L. L. Zamenhof
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Morphological derivation
Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as For example, unhappy and happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories without changing its core meaning: determines, determining, and determined are from the root determine.
See Pro-form and Morphological derivation
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. Pro-form and noun are parts of speech.
Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.
Part of speech
In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Pro-form and part of speech are parts of speech.
See Pro-form and Part of speech
Phrase
In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit.
Pro-sentence
A pro-sentence is a sentence where the subject pronoun has been dropped and therefore the sentence has a null subject. Pro-form and pro-sentence are parts of speech.
Pro-verb
In linguistics, a pro-verb is a verb or partial phrase that substitutes for a contextually recognizable verb phrase (via a process known as grammatical gapping), obviating the need to repeat an antecedent verb phrase. Pro-form and pro-verb are parts of speech.
Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pro-form and pronoun are parts of speech.
Relative pronoun
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause.
See Pro-form and Relative pronoun
Semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.
Sentence (linguistics)
In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.
See Pro-form and Sentence (linguistics)
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
See Pro-form and Standard Chinese
Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). Pro-form and verb are parts of speech.
Verb phrase
In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of a verb and its arguments except the subject of an independent clause or coordinate clause.
Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-form
Also known as Correlative pronoun, Correlatives, Pro-forms, Pro-noun, Proform, Table of correlatives.