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Preliminary Recommendations

WH-Type

Interrogative

These are: `qué', `cuál', `quién' and `cuánto'.

All of them inflect for Number except for `qué'. Only `cuánto/a' inflects for Gender and Number: `cuántos/as'.

In EUROTRA dictionaries they are valued as 3rd for Person since they agree, when they are the subject of a sentence, with 3rd person verb forms.

Relative

These are `que' and `quien'. Only `quien' inflects for Number.

Personal

In Spanish, the attributes pertinent to personal pronouns are: Person, Gender (except for dative pronouns), Number, Case and Politeness.

Case is normally related to grammatical functions, thus nominative corresponds to subject, accusative to first object, dative to second object and oblique to those oblique arguments obligatorily introduced by a preposition. Note that Spanish has oblique synthetic forms such as `conmigo' (`with me').

In the following, we only give examples for the first person singular forms:

Pers Number Gender Pos Case Funct Pol Infl Sp. example
1 sg c nom yo
1 sg c acc me
1 sg c dat me
1 sg c obl mi
1 sg obl conmigo

Reflexive Pronouns

Pers Number Gender Pos Case FunctPolInfl Sp. example
1 sg me
2 sg te
3 sg se
1 pl nos
2 pl os
3 pl se

Reciprocal Pronouns

Formally, reciprocal pronouns are the same as reflexive pronouns.



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