[Lingtyp] Definition of “personal pronoun"

[JOO, Ian [Student]]

Dear Amanda,

thank you for your suggestion.
I’ve had a look into the pp. 5-6 of the book.
If the definition of a person marker is (1) deixis (2) reference to speech act participants, then are demonstratives also person markers?
In fact, many languages (such as Hindi or Mongolian) use demonstratives as the generic 3rd person pronouns.
So should we view demonstratives as a subset of personal pronouns?

Regards,
ian
On 6 Jul 2021, 1:25 PM +0800, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway <amanda.hamilton2 at uq.net.au>, wrote:
Dear Ian,

Cysouw (2003, p. 5), in his Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking, provides a definition of “person markers.” The way I understand it, at least, he uses this term to refer to forms that are obligatorily deictic and [occur in a paradigm with forms that] can indicate speech act participants (i.e., speaker or addressee).

Good wishes,
Amanda

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Subject: [Lingtyp] Definition of “personal pronoun"

Dear typologists,

I’m having a hard time trying to find a definition of a “personal pronoun”.
One definition is that a personal pronoun refers to a literal person, a human being. But then again, non-human pronouns like English it are also frequently included as a personal pronoun.
Another definition seems to be that “personal” refers to a grammatical person and not a literal person. Thus, it refers to the (non-human) 3rd person, therefore it is a personal pronoun.
But then again, demonstratives, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns also refer to the 3rd person. (This is a book, who is that man, anything is possible) Then are they also personal pronouns?
What’s the clearest definition of a personal pronoun, if any?

From Hong Kong,
Ian
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