Comparative Concept: generic pronoun (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
generic pronoun (cxn)
Typ | construction |
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Alias(se) | generic pronoun |
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Definition
a pronoun used for generic reference. Example: in One always works too much, one is functioning as a generic pronoun. (Section 3.6)