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HE-Definite-Reference-NP Construction

Name HE-Definite-Reference-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn Referring to a male person.
Usage conditions – PERSON must be identifiable from linguistic or extralinguistic context;
– occurs only in SUBJ-slot of constructions with Vfin
Syntactic form he
Agreement singular verb
Related forms him his
General cxn-type DEFINITE-REFERENCE-NP CONSTRUCTION
PERSONAL-PRONOUN CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Specification 3rd person sg
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch. 5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F