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)
- 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
- 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 form | pseudo-reflexive |
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Origin of pseudoreflexive
From pseudo- + reflexive.
Words formed from pseudoreflexive
- pseudoreflexivity
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
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