Pseudoreflexive
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place. not-comparable
"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')."
- 2 Inducing a topological isomorphism between the domain and its image. not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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')."
Etymology
From pseudo- + reflexive.
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