What does pseudoreflexive mean?
Pseudoreflexive means (grammar) Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place..
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(grammar) Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place..
Another strategy when the object is not human, used less than in Italian or Spanish but nevertheless not uncommon, is the pseudo-reflexive structure, that is, the use of the active forms of a verb reflexive in appearance in a 'passive' sense (les fleurs se vendent ici le dimanche lit. 'flowers sell themselves . . .' i.e. 'flowers are sold here on Sundays').
In the next two theorems we will assume E pseudoreflexive. This is not a big restriction since every Banach space over a spherically complete nonarchimedean field is pseudoreflexive.
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Pseudoreflexive means (grammar) Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place..
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Another strategy when the object is not human, used less than in Italian or Spanish but nevertheless not uncommon, is the pseudo-reflexive structure, that is, the use of the active forms of a verb reflexive in appearance in a 'passive' sense (les fleurs se vendent ici le dimanche lit. 'flowers sell themselves . . .' i.e. 'flowers are sold here on Sundays').
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