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pronominal, a. (n.)|prəʊˈnɒmɪnəl|
[ad. late L. prōnōmināl-is belonging to a pronoun (Priscian), f. L. prōnōmen, -in- pronoun: see -al1. So in F.]
A. adj.
†1. Serving to indicate things, instead of naming them. Obs. rare.
1644Bulwer Chirol. 164 The naturall validity of this indigitation of persons, and pronominall vertue of this Finger.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pronoun. Also, characterized by the presence of a pronoun.
1680Dalgarno Deaf & Dumb Tutor 134 Our own English pronominal words are none of the most graceful pronunciation. 1751Harris Hermes ii. i. (1786) 233 There are the Pronominal Articles, such as, This, That, Any, Other, Some, All, No or None, &c. 1824J. Winterbottom Two French Words 19 The French Pronominal Adverb en. 1837G. Phillips Syriac Gram. 42 What are called pronominal affixes, which are added to the end of nouns. 1902Greenough & Kittridge Words 170 To the second class we give the name of pronominal roots, because a great number of them occur in pronouns, and because they seem to express ideas of a relative nature, such as are found in pronouns and indefinite adverbs. 1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. 303 There are two kinds of questions; ‘Did he say that?’ is an example of one kind, and ‘What did he say?’ and ‘Who said that?’ are examples of the other. Many names have been proposed for these two kinds: yes-or-no question or categorical question v. pronominal question [etc.]. 1928H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) I. vii. 381 Sweet..distinguishes them as general and special questions; Kruisinga..as disjunctive and pronominal questions. 1931G. Stern Meaning & Change of Meaning xi. 332 German etcetera..may mean ‘podex, crepitus ventris, devil, cacare’, etc. This might be called a pronominal use. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. 120 Prepositions require further programming..as do pronominal verbs (s'améliorer). 1965B. Collinder in Bessinger & Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 28 Adolf Noreen distinguished between expressive and pronominal sememes. 1978Language LIV. 369, I also argue that the pro-predicates have an especially close resemblance to ‘pronominal determiners’ like the italicized portions of the following.
B. n. (The adj. used absol.) A pronominal word.
1871Kennedy Public Sch. Lat. Gram. §127. 279 When the Accusative of the Matter is a Neuter Pronoun or Pronominal. 1876Ibid. §31 (ed. 4) 143 The Interrogative Pronominals qualis, quantus, quot. 1971Language XLVII. 169 The prefixes of the inflectional category include aspects such as si-..and yi-.., modals such as ni-..and di-.., and pronominals such as yi-..and i-.
Hence proˈnominalize v. trans., to render pronominal; proˈnominalized, proˈnominalizing ppl. adjs.; proˈnominally adv., with the force of or as a pronoun; by means of a pronoun.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §477 We have also some substantives which have been *pronominalised to this effect, as person, people, body, folk. 1971Language XLVII. 527 The indefinite article, when truly indefinite (when pronominalized by one), introduces a noun in a qualitative rather than an identifying sense. 1975Archivum Linguisticum VI. 78 The subject of ofereode is pretty clearly the (unhappy) result of the situation outlined in the stanza; the genitive, which has been pronominalized, referring to the situation itself. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 31 In colloquial English, they can be said to pronominalize a [+ human, + III] antecedent of undetermined sex, regardless of number.
1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 163 These are reducible identically to the *pronominalized each one, this one..or finally all the way to it. 1977Language LIII. 97 The *pronominalizing languages present in surface more of the logical structure of restrictive relative clauses than do the non⁓pronominalizing languages. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 118 The..particle is to be taken adjectively..and not merely nominally or *pronominally. 1836in Smart. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn xxx, ‘What was that notion of his’—they usually spoke of the minister pronominally. |