pronoun (n.) (pro, PRO, pron)

A term used in the grammatical classification of words, referring to the closed set of items which can be used to substitute for a noun phrase (or single noun). There are many types of pronoun, with terminology varying somewhat between grammars. Personal pronouns include I, you, etc., in their variant forms (e.g. I/me); in their form my/mine, the term possessive pronoun (pos(s), POS(S)) is often used. Other classes of pronoun regularly recognized include: demonstrative pronouns, e.g. this/that (in certain of their uses); interrogative pronouns, e.g. certain uses of who/which/what; reflexive pronouns, e.g. myself/yourself; indefinite pronouns, e.g. anyone/nobody;

relative pronouns, e.g. who/whom/that; and resumptive or shadow pronouns, e.g. him in John, I like him. A logophoric pronoun (or logophor) refers to a person whose speech or thought is represented in discourse. The grammatical statement of pronominal distribution in a language is usually quite complex. It is often discussed with reference to the more general notions of PRO-FORM and DEIXIS.