Table of Contents

1: Introduction
Part I: Personal Pronouns
2: Relation with the Referent
3: Coreference and Non-Coreference
4: Association with Grammatical Categories
5: Conflicting Characteristics
6: The Position of Third Person Pronouns
Part II: Proforms
7: The Structure of Proforms
8: Constituent Elements of Proforms
9: Characteristics of Proforms
10: Interrogative-Indefinite Puzzle
11: Other Related Puzzles
12: Concluding Remarks
Appendix: List of 225 Languages Used as a Sample
References
Index of Authors
Index of Languages
Index of Subjects

About the Author

D.N.S.Bhat retired in 1995 as Research Scientist, University Grants Commission, at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. He has been Professor of Linguistics in Manipur University, Imphal and International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Tiruvananthapuram, and Reader in Tibeto-Burman linguistics in Deccan College, Pune. He was also a British Council Fellow and a Research Associate in the Language Universals Project of Stanford University. He has
written several books both in English and Kannada, which include The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood (John Benjamin 1999), The Adjectival Category (John Benjamin 1994), Grammatical Relations (Routledge
1991), Referents of Noun Phrases (Deccan College 1979), and The Syntax and Semantics of Kannada Sentences (in Kannada, Geetha Book House 1978).

Reviews

The book is destined to remain part of the bibliography on the topic of pronouns for years to come.
*Kanavillil Rajagopalan, WORD Vol. 58 No. 2*