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Presumably one would use the term only in a language where nouns and
other nominal entities (like pronouns) are usually declined (i.e. have
different "case" forms according to their grammatical function.)
Personal pronouns would be either pronouns referring to human beings
(persons) or to "grammatical person", i.e. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person
pronouns. In English the 1st person singular pronoun can be described
as a declinable form (though in English we don't do declensions as a
rule) since it can be <i>I</i>, <i>me</i>, or <i>my</i> according to
its grammatical function. If the 2nd person singular pronoun didn't
have a special possessive form (<i>your</i>), it would be an
indeclinable personal pronoun, since it appears as <i>you</i> in all
(other) syntactic contexts.<br>
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Does that make sense?<br>
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--David T<br>
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phil cash cash wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Greetings,
I need to find a basic but informative definition for a grammatical
category: indeclinable personal pronoun.
Any suggestions appreciated, Phil
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