Meaning of pseudoreflexive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a verb: requiring the use of a reflexive construction when no reflexive action is actually taking place.
   not-comparable
2. Inducing a topological isomorphism between the domain and its image.
   not-comparable

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').”

“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.”

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