autoreflexive

Definitions

Occurring in such a way that the agent performing an action is inherently utilized.

Examples

“One might describe⟳ what happens between Columbus's first letter and the postconquest narratives of Francisco López de Gómara or Bernal Díaz del Castillo as the European imposition of meanings onto American society — rendering allegorical what was encountered as autoreflexive — and the consequent loss of the indigenous perspectives that might challenge⟳ that construction of the New World.”

“The personal pronouns combine⟳ with postposition =gon and the two enclitics =nang 'alone' and =wuk 'by strength of' in autoreflexive expressions (more at §7.1.2). These can in some cases be interpreted as oblique verbal arguments rather than adverbial phrases […]”

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