pseudoreflexive

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adjective

Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place.

Scrabble 31

Meanings

adjectivepseudoreflexive (not comparable)

alternative pseudo-reflexive

  1. not comparablegrammarOf 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').

    1987, Bernard Comrie, editor, The World's Major Languages, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 228
  2. not comparablemathematicsInducing a topological isomorphism between the domain and its image.

    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.

    2001, José N. Aguayo, Thomas E. Gilsdorf, “Non-Archimedean Vector Measures and Integral Operators”, in A. K. Katsaras, W. H. Schikhof, L. Van Hamme, editors, p-adic Functional Analysis: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics), New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 8

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