Traditionally, if the relative pronoun was to be the object of a preposition in the clause (other than the "de" of possession), or the indirect object of the clause's verb, a form of "lequel" was used, with the preposition placed before it: « la femme de laquelle j'ai parlé » ("the woman about whom I spoke"). (Note that here, as in the interrogative case described above, "à" and "de" contract with most forms of "lequel".) Nowadays, the form of "lequel" is typically replaced with "qui" when the antecedent is a human: « la femme de qui j'ai parlé ». Further, if the preposition is "de", even if it is not the "de" of the possession, "dont" has started to be used (with both human and non-human antecedents): « la femme dont j'ai parlé ». (However, "dont" has "not" started to be used in the case of compound prepositions ending in "de", such as "à côté de", "loin de", and "à cause de": « la femme à cause de laquelle j'ai parlé », "the woman because of whom I spoke").