The topic of this section is the possessive pronouns. Section 19.2.2.1 begins by showing that the possessive pronouns can be divided into more or less the same semantic subclasses as the personal pronouns (referential, interrogative, quantificational, etc.), with some minor differences. Section 19.2.2.2 discusses the interpretation of possessive pronouns and argues that the core meaning of referential possessive pronouns consists of two parts: the first part is similar to that of the definite article; the second part is also found in the other types of possessive pronouns and introduces a partitioning of the denotation set of the head noun they modify. The types of relations between the possessive pronoun and the head noun that lead to this partitioning are also discussed in this section. Some referential possessive pronouns have a strong and a weak (phonetically reduced) form; the restrictions on their use are discussed in Section 19.2.2.3. Finally, Section 19.2.2.4 considers a number of special cases: the functional use of weak referential possessive pronouns in examples such as Jan z’n boekJanʼs book, the use of the inflected form of referential possessive pronouns in constructions such as de mijnemine, and some idiomatic constructions involving possessive pronouns.