Spanish Pronouns Up Close by Eric Vogt Ph.D

Author:Eric Vogt, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2008-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Reflexive se compared with se in double-pronoun constructions

First, to begin to consolidate the notion of what a reflexive construction really does, consider that reflexive object pronouns are merely a subcategory of indirect object pronouns, in which the subject and indirect object are the same. Examine the following sentence that uses the reflexive verb lavarse, and ask the questions we have used to identify subject, direct object, and indirect object:

The subject is ellos, since it is they who are doing the washing. The direct object is las manos, because that is what they wash. Those whose hands are being washed are, as the use of the reflexive pronoun se reveals, the same people as those doing the washing. Answering the usual questions for identifying the types of objects in this sentence proves that the reflexive is in fact a subcategory of the indirect object, which gets its own pronoun, se, to mark the third person singular or plural, whether or not it is followed by a direct object pronoun.

We also can change las manos, the direct object noun, into a direct object pronoun, las. When we rewrite this sentence, we create a sentence with double-object pronouns (indirect-as-reflexive followed by the direct object pronoun):

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