Syntactic function npro
a noun that is a a pro-form, traditionally: a pronoun
1. may sometimes idiomatically precede negated transitive verb as the object of that verb. 2. cannot normally be modified (as in English "poor old me"). 3. can hardly function as a topic in its pronominal meaning. 4. often functions as a substitute for a contextually determinate noun (this, of course, does not hold for question pronouns etc). 5. has no derivative functions as a denominal adverb, thus there is no npro.adV, although occasional abstract nominalisations are attested. 6. npro differs interestingly from nouns with pronominal semantics "n - pro" such as 臣 which are analysed as having the semantic feature "pro".
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