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Determiners: articles and pronouns 841 of (455b) is to be expected when mijne is a noun, but not when it is followed by an empty noun (cf. de blauwe ‘the blue one’). The force of the argument is rather weak, however, given that the adjective cannot precede the nominalized possessive pronoun either. (455) a. Jouw rode trui is mooi, maar mijn blauwe is nog mooier. your red sweater is beautiful but my blue is even more beautiful ‘Your red sweater is beautiful, but my blue one is even more beautiful.’ b. *Jouw rode trui is mooi, maar de mijne blauwe is nog mooier. your red sweater is beautiful but the mine blue is even more beautiful A second reason is that, at least in orthography, the possessive pronoun can be followed by the plural marker –n (the n in the plural suffix –en is normally not pronounced in Standard Dutch). The noun phrase headed by the possessive pronoun must then refer to the persons belonging to the referent of the possessive pronoun (in particular his family or followers). (456) a. ik en de mijnen b. Luther en de zijnen I and the mine Luther and the his ‘me and those who belong to me ‘Luther and his followers’ For this reason, we will not consider the examples in (454) as counterevidence for the claim that possessive pronouns are determiners; they simply function as nouns. There is, however, another potential problem for this claim, which we have ignored so far, namely that the plural first person pronoun ons exhibits what seems to be attributive inflection. This is illustrated in (457). (457) a. onze slaapkamer a′. een mooie slaapkamer our bedroom a beautiful bedroom b. ons-∅ huis b′. een mooi-∅ huis our house a beautiful house c. onze huizen c′. mooie huizen our houses beautiful houses A comparison of the primeless and primed examples suggests that the inflection of ons is similar to the inflection of an attributive adjective in an indefinite noun phrase (cf. 3.2.1), which in turn suggests that ons occupies the attributive position in the noun phrase (and not the determiner position). It must be noted, however, that the only thing we can conclude from the primeless examples in (457) is that the possessive pronoun agrees in gender and number with the head noun. In this respect, it is no different from the articles and the demonstrative pronouns, which agree with the head noun in the same way; what should surprise us is not that ons exhibits agreement with the head noun, but that the other forms do not. Note further that the fact that agreement on ons involves the suffix -e may be merely accidental, and need not point toward the conclusion that we are dealing with an attributive phrase. That it is just an accident is supported by the fact that the attributive ending –e is only absent in indefinite noun phrases, whereas noun phrases introduced by the referential possessive pronouns in Table 10 are always definite; cf. Section 5.2.2.2.
842 Syntax of Dutch: nouns and noun phrases 5.2.2.5.3. Idioms and fixed combinations Possessive pronouns are featured in several more or less idiomatic constructions. Some of these will be discussed in the following subsections. I. Vocatives and salutations Possessive pronouns can occur in noun phrases that address a person or are used as the salutation in a letter. The possessive pronoun then implies that there is a certain intimacy between the speaker/writer and the addressee. The pronoun is generally followed by an adjective like beste or lieve ‘dear’. For obvious reasons, the possessive pronoun is the first person singular one in cases like these. (458) a. Mijn beste Jan/vriend, ... my best Jan/friend ‘Dear Jan/friend, ...’ b. Mijn lieve Jan/schat, ... my sweet Jan/treasure ‘My dear (Jan), ...’ II. Evaluative use of possessive pronouns Sometimes the possessive pronoun has a purely evaluative function. An example like (459a) may express that Gerard Reve is the favorite writer of the addressee, a writer the addressee is talking a lot about, etc. Similarly, (459b) expresses that Jan has a special interest in astrology. Often, this construction is used ironically; an example like (459c) expresses that the speaker certainly does not share the belief (implicitly attributed to the addressee) that the girl in question is sweet. (459) a. jouw Gerard Reve your Gerard Reve b. Jan is altijd bezig met zijn astrologie. Jan is always busy with his astrology c. Jouw lieve dochter heeft weer eens een ruit gebroken. your sweet daughter has again PRT a window broken ‘Your sweet daughter has broken a window again.’ III. “Par excellence” reading In the cases in (460), the use of the possessive pronouns seems to come close to the “par excellence” reading of the definite articles, discussed in Section 5.1.4.2, sub II. (460) a. je reinste onzin your clearest nonsense ‘utter nonsense’ b. Dat is je ware. c. Dat is je dat. that is your true that is your that ‘That’s the real thing.’ ‘That’s tops.’
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