In:Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference
Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack
[Approaches to Hungarian 13] 2013
► pp. 33–44
Silent people
The pseudo-impersonal
Published online: 25 September 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.13.03bro
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.13.03bro
I argue that cases of personal pronouns that appear to be interpretable as universal impersonals only in the presence of a (typically locative) adverbial phrase are in fact not impersonal pronouns at all. These “universal impersonal cum adverbial” constructions involve an ordinary anaphoric personal pronoun whose antecedent is a silent people hidden in the locative.
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