Syllabicity

[Nik Taylor]

"Patrick C. Ryan" wrote:

> A pronoun is a pro-noun. It can be put in any position syntactically in
> which a noun can be employed. To say that pronouns do not "act like nouns"
> is completely unjustified!

Not entirely so.  One cannot say, for example, *the he.  To the best of
my knowledge, of languages with articles, none of them use them with
pronouns.  In addition, pronouns usually (always?) cannot have
non-predicate adjectives, "old man" is acceptable, "old he" is not.

> They do not look like nouns in one regard: they are principally *Ce vs.
> *CeC; however, that is due to their frequent enclitic employment where
> brevity is recommended.

As in French j', etc.?
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