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Central semantics for value strong personal pronoun

Morphological criterion

  1. Strong personal pronouns are personal pronouns which belong to the paradigm of moi. This criterion is necessary and sufficient.

Syntactic criterion

  1. Strong personal pronouns are personal pronouns which are in complementary distribution with weak personal pronouns. They can for example occupy the position after a preposition (whereas weak personal pronouns do not), and they can be a reinforcement of weak personal pronouns.

Test

Given X a pronoun, Y a weak personal pronoun; If X can occupy the position after a preposition, or if X is a reinforcement of Y, X can be a strong personal pronoun.