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19.2.1.Personal pronouns
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This section discusses the personal pronouns, i.e. pronouns used as the argument (subject or object) of a verb or as the complement of a preposition. Some typical examples are given in (323).

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a. Hij komt morgen.
subject
  he comes tomorrow
  'He will come tomorrow.'
b. Peter bezoekt hem morgen.
object
  Peter visits him tomorrow
  'Peter will visit him tomorrow.'
c. Marie wacht morgen op hem.
nominal part of PP-complement
  Marie waits tomorrow for him
  'Marie will wait for him tomorrow.'
d. Marie spreekt morgen namens hem.
nominal part of adverbial phrase
  Marie speaks tomorrow on.behalf.of him
  'Marie will speak on his behalf tomorrow.'

We will distinguish six semantic subclasses of personal pronouns which have already been discussed and illustrated in Table 6: referential, interrogative, quantificational, relative, and reflexive/reciprocal pronouns. Not all of these subclasses will be discussed in detail here; the relative pronouns, for example, can be discussed in a more natural way in relation to their syntactic context, relative clauses. We therefore refer the reader to Section 17.3.2.2 for a more detailed discussion of these pronouns.

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