[Lexicog] indeclinable def.

[phil cash cash]

David, yes, I think it is beginning to makes sense.  So I imagine  
(from a strictly Eng perspective) that one can make use of an  
indeclinable form when someone says things like "Me, myself, and I  
left town" where "Me, myself and I" taken together is an indeclinable- 
like expression.  If so, then I am thinking something like "I myself"  
is an independent indeclinable ponoun in the languages I'm familiar  
with (though Eng uses the two words here).
Phil

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:56 PM, David Tuggy wrote:

> 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, me, or my according to  
> its grammatical function. If the 2nd person singular pronoun didn't  
> have a special possessive form (your), it would be an indeclinable  
> personal pronoun, since it appears as you in all (other) syntactic  
> contexts.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> --David T
>
> phil cash cash wrote:
>>
>> 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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