3.2.5. Romanian Pronoun

3.2.5.1. Notes

• Type: In Romanian it is worth differentiating the negative pronoun from other indefinite pronouns: a negative pronoun cannot be an argument for a verb unless the verb itself is negated too (e.g. Nu am văzut pe nimeni / *Am văzut pe nimeni).
• Case: For the second person of the personal pronoun in both singular and plural there is the vocative case too. The direct and oblique values are needed for the syncretic causal forms of the other pronouns than the personal ones.
• Owner_Number: This attribute is meaningful for the Possessive pronouns and refers to the grammatical number of the possessor. The gramatical number of the possesed object(s) is expressed by the attribute Number.
• Owner_Gender: This attribute is irrelevant for Romanian.
• Clitic: See discussion on Verb clitics.
• Pronoun_Form: For Romanian we need an attribute (called Pronoun_Form) to make the distinction between strong and weak forms of the same pronoun. All the weak forms can be adjoined to the adjacent words both proclitically or enclitically. In such cases the junction is always graphically marked by a hyphen between the pronoun and the neighboring word. The hyphen also marks possible elisions from either pronoun or the adjacent word. Although in traditional grammar books the demonstrative, int_rel and indefinite pronouns are not characterised by person, in our dictionaries they are recorded (for reasons beyond morpho-lexical encoding) as 3rd person (the same as nouns). However, for the automatic tagging this value has been marked as irrelevant.