| Name | THEMSELVES-Reflexive-Reference-NP Construction |
|---|---|
| Semantic function of cxn | ① Establishing co-reference with group of people not including speaker or addressee. ② Establishing co-reference with one person in a gender-neutral way. |
| Usage conditions | – group must be identifiable from linguistic or extralinguistic context; – not in SUBJ-slot of constructions with Vfin |
| Syntactic form | themselves |
| General cxn-type | REFLEXIVE-PRONOUN CONSTRUCTION |
| Construction family | NP CONSTRUCTION |
| Specification | 3rd person |
| Literature | Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5) |
| Annotators/Date | TRH/04/21F |