Grammatical categories: Strong and weak pronouns in Romance

Romance non-clitic pronouns are not categorized into strong and weak. • Strong and weak categorizations require a realizational model of the lexicon. • The empirical evidence is compatible with a projectionist model. • Italian ‘weak’ loro is accounted for by oblique case, Lombard wh- pronouns by Focus, French wh- pronouns by case, animacy, tense. • The supercategory ‘weak pronoun’ is unnecessary.