pseudoreflexive

English

Examples (Spanish grammar)
El se enojó ("he got angry", literally, "he angered himself")

Alternative forms

• pseudo-reflexive

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ reflexive.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudoreflexive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place.
   • 1987, Bernard Comrie, editor, The World's Major Languages, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 228:

     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. (mathematics) Inducing a topological isomorphism between the domain and its image.
   • 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 of the Sixth International Conference (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics), New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 8:

     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.

Derived terms

• pseudoreflexivity