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pseudoreflexive

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

Adjective

pseudoreflexive (not comparable)

  1. 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...1987, Bernard Comrie, editor, The World's Major Languages, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 228
  2. Inducing 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...

Forms of pseudoreflexive

alternative formpseudo-reflexive

Origin of pseudoreflexive

From pseudo- + reflexive.

Words formed from pseudoreflexive

Questions about pseudoreflexive

What does pseudoreflexive mean?
Pseudoreflexive means of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place.
What part of speech is pseudoreflexive?
Pseudoreflexive is an adjective.

Words near pseudoreflexive in the dictionary

  1. pseudoreference
  2. pseudoreferendum
  3. pseudoreferendums
  4. pseudoreflection
  5. pseudoreflections
  6. pseudoreflexive
  7. pseudoreform
  8. pseudoreforms
  9. pseudorelational
  10. pseudorelativistic
  11. pseudoreligion

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