Only the attributes Number and Gender are pertinent to Spanish pronominal demonstratives.
Pers | Number | Gender | Pos | Case | Funct | Pol | Infl | Sp. example |
3 | sg | masc | este | |||||
3 | pl | fem | aquellas | |||||
3 | sg | n | eso | |||||
These pronominals reflect deictic degree of remoteness, which is not, however, coded in EUROTRA-ES dictionaries.
As for Person, these pronominals (coded in EUROTRA-ES dictionaries as `nouns') are forced to have a person attribute valued as third, due to verbal agreement.
The attributes pertinent to Spanish pronominal possessives are: Number, Gender, Person and Possessor.
Pers | Number | Gender | Pos | Case | Funct | Pol | Infl | Sp. example |
3/1 | sg | masc | sg | (el) mio | ||||
3/2 | pl | fem | sg | (las) tuyas | ||||
3/3 | sg | masc | pl | (los) suyos | ||||
Number refers to possessee referent. Agreement is established with respect to this attribute. References to possessor number are made via lexical variation (except when the possessor is third person: `suyo').
As for the attribute Person, these pronominals (coded in EUROTRA-ES dictionaries as `noun') have a person attribute valued as third by default since they agree with third person verb forms despite the grammatical person of their referent.
These are: `alguien', `nadie', `quienquiera', `qualquiera', `uno', `alguno', `ninguno', `algo', `nada' and `otro'. All indefinite determiners can be also used as pronouns. In EUROTRA-ES dictionaries this category is split into nouns, nform=pronoun and the category `quantifier', e.g. `nada', `nadie', `todos/as'.
These are variable in gender and number except for `alguien', `nadie' and `nada'.