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Preliminary Recommendations

Demonstrative

Demonstrative It. example It. tag
questo PD/ms
quello PD/ms

Among the Demonstratives, the most used are: `questo', `codesto' and `quello'. Deixis is implicitly contained in demonstratives, but not presently encoded:

``Usa queste (PD/fs), non prendere quelle (PD/fp).''

While the others can be used as pronouns or pronominal adjectives, `ció' only has pronoun function:

``ció é vero.'' -- PD/nn

`Questi', `quegli', `costui' and `colui' are pronouns used only for humans; `questi' and `quegli' are scarcely used and archaic, refer to the singular:

``Questi é un bell'uomo.'' -- PD/ms

`Stesso' and `medesimo' can be demonstrative pronouns.