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reflexive pronoun

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Noun1.reflexive pronoun - a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
reflexive
personal pronoun - a pronoun expressing a distinction of person
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Hajdu believes that the inflection comes from the Proto-Finnic 3P personal pronoun *sen, and only thereafter obtained the meaning of a reflexive pronoun ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1985 : 244-247).
On the 3rd person verbal mark er *-sV and the definite conjugation in ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
Examples (33) and (35) below, where the reflexive pronoun appears in the clause initial position, seem to provide support for the covert antecedent raising approach: 35) a.
On the correlation between A-type scrambling and lack of weak ... by Witkos, Jacek / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
There is a difference between saying "Rembrandt fashioned himself" and "Rembrandt fashioned his self": the reflexive pronoun in the first predicate has merely deictic force, whereas in the second, the noun clause has referential force and implies commitment to an entity, the self.
Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth Century Identity by Berger, Harry, Jr. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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