Monopersonal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Monopersonal is an adjective meaning (grammar) Having only one grammatical person.
Meaning
(grammar) Having only one grammatical person.
Example Sentences
Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second. Some such verbs do not even occur in the third-person plural. For instance, Finnish has several subtypes of monopersonal verbs, here all listed in the third person singular (marked by lenghthening of the stem-vowel): […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unipersonal, singular, polypersonal, multipersonal, monomorphemic, mononomial.
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