REFLEXIVEPRONOUN

Reflexive pronoun

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is preceded by the noun, adjective, adverb or pronoun to which it refers within the same clause. In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent . In a general sense, it is a noun phrase that obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence. Different languages will have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns, according to their structure.

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reflexive pronoun

Noun

  1. A personal pronoun, having a form of "self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
  2. In some languages, a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
    Spanish: El se lavo — He washed (himself).
    El lavo — He washed (something).
    Russian: — He washed (himself).
    — He washed (something).


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