Name | THEMSELVES-Reflexive-Reference-NP Construction |
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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 |