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Value pers

The value personal is used for the encoding of personal pronouns.

In Italian the use of personal pronouns, differently than other European languages, is not obligatory: Tu parli, io ascolto; quando parli, ti ascolto.

Morphological criteria:

- personal pronouns share with possessive pronouns the person value;
- they are subdivided into two subgroups, depending on the inflectional paradigm (feature Inflection): ``forme toniche", here encoded as strong, and ``forme atone" weak (Serianni 1988).
- they are further subdivided into two subgroups, on the basis of the case: ``subject" (mapped onto the EAGLES Case value nom) and ``complement" (mapped onto the EAGLES Case value obl).