THE PART-OF-SPEECH STATUS OF THE PRONOUNS IN ENGLISH IN VIEW OF TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS
Domestic and foreign schools of linguistics have different opinions regarding the status of the pronouns in English, since the question has always been a complex task of the theory of parts of speech. In recent decades, attempts to clarify the traditional classification have been made in line with new directions in linguistics. The cognitive approach considers parts of speech as natural prototypical categories, which gives a deeper understanding of how the former participate in the representation of the world through language as well as reveals new links in the system of parts of speech and within each class. The author makes an assumption about the prototype of the pronouns in the English language.