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HIMSELF-Reflexive-Reference-NP Construction

Name HIMSELF-Reflexive-Reference-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn Establishing co-reference with male person who is neither the speaker nor the addressee.
Usage conditions – PERSON must be identifiable from linguistic or extralinguistic context;
– not in SUBJ-slot of constructions with Vfin
Syntactic form himself
General cxn-type REFLEXIVE-PRONOUN CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Specification 3rd person sg
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F