ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the pronoun systems in the different French creoles. These are the personal pronouns, the demonstrative pronouns, the possessive pronouns, the refl exive pronouns, and the impersonal or expletive pronouns. As we will see, the different systems have much in common, and, in comparison with the French pronoun system, they are numerically smaller. This is largely a consequence of the loss of gender and number marking in the French creoles.