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THEMSELVES-Reflexive-Reference-NP Construction

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