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Abstract

Pronoun is a part of speech for which Russian linguists and grammarians propose various interpretations with respect to its nature and place in the system of parts of speech. Most Russian linguists, emphasizing the "deictic"
function of Pronoun as one of its main grammatical features, refrain from
; i",'Y' "i':;
considering it as one part of speech and assign it to various parts of speech.
In this paper, through an investigation of the morphological and syntactic
Features of pronouns and contrasting such features with the criteria by which other independent part of speech are determined , an attempt is made to characterize pronoun as an independent ,an attempt is made to characterize pronoun as an independent part of parallel to the other parts of speech.

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