Abstract
The paper explores pronoun-cum-demonstrative (PD) constructions in early Southern Min playscripts. They fall into two types: (1) possessive PD constructions, and (2) appositional PD constructions. The possessive PD construction denotes the possessive relationship between possessor and possessee, and proximal and distal demonstrative are a pivot between them. The appositional PD construction shows an equivalent relationship between pronoun and determiner phrase (comprising demonstratives and nouns), and such an appositional relation roughly equaling a small clause with an implied copula. Given the analysis based on small clauses, determiner phrases denote the semantic properties of pronouns, and are often expressed by epithets in terms of metaphor in exclamatives. The paper also touches on some constructions related to PD constructions.