What is an emphatic pronoun?

Definition
	An emphatic pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used to emphasize its referent.

Example (French)
	In the following sentence, moi is used as an emphatic pronoun: Moi, je suis français. ‘Me, I am French.’

Generic
	An emphatic pronoun is a kind of
	What is a personal pronoun?

Source
	Hartmann and Stork 1972 76

Context for this page:

Concept module: emphatic pronoun
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): E
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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