Possessive Pronoun (definition)

For a list of the possessive pronouns of Gaelic See Possessive Pronouns

A word in a language whose syntactic role is to take the place of a possessive noun. For example, in the English sentence, “This doll is hers” hers is a possessive pronoun that indicates that the doll belongs to a particular female. Possessive pronouns in English are mine, his, hers, yours, their, theirs, its.

See Also

Possessive Pronouns Pronoun (definition)

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(linguistics)

References

• Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.