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Silent people

The pseudo-impersonal
  • Michael Brody
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Abstract

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.

Abstract

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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