monopersonal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]monopersonal (not comparable)
- (grammar) Having only one grammatical person.
- 2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650:
- Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second. Some such verbs do not even occur in the third-person plural. For instance, Finnish has several subtypes of monopersonal verbs, here all listed in the third person singular (marked by lenghthening of the stem-vowel): […]
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[edit]having one grammatical person
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