Reflexive

Similarly, in place of the genitive of the Latin pronouns, the Romance languages adopted the reflexive possessive, which then serves indifferently as both reflexive and non-reflexive possessive.

Another is the use of French reflexive constructions in sentences such as the reply to a question like Where are you going?, reply: Me I'm goin' downtown (this reflexive form of grammar also exists in Irish Gaelic and Jerriais ).

English uses the same forms as the reflexive pronouns; for example: I did it myself (contrast reflexive use, I did it to myself).

If X is a Banach space, then X is reflexive if and only if X ′ is reflexive.

If X is a reflexive Banach space, every closed subspace of X and every quotient space of X are reflexive.

Reflexive verbs Bulgarian uses reflexive verbal forms (i.e. actions which are performed by the agent onto him- or herself) which behave in a similar way as they do in many other Indo-European languages, such as French and Spanish.

But to avoid slipping into what’s called “reflexive impotence” what should we be doing instead?

So part of what he’s up to is asking us, at all times, to be self-reflexive about the desires and needs and fantasies that drive us in politics.

Too many things play a role: available emergency flight path, eye contact, pedestrians, curve-ahead etc. In this regard I'm a fairly attentive and reflexive driver, and I'll rely on that.

Did that accident make her change her reflexive compliance?

It's a great running gag no matter in which direction her humor darts off — but at the same time, it proves self-reflexive too.

The very neuroses and craziness white people exhibit in their automatic reflexive efforts to cover up the lie of whiteness are exhibit A – evidence of the wound.

And he now has a new talking point: NATO is reflective, not reflexive.

And if you’re a bureaucratic black belt, challenging the bureaucratic status quo means learning to change some reflexive habits.

Outside of vocal support for Trump and their reflexive hatred for anything considered anti-Trump, few within the movement can pinpoint anything that keeps them together.

She can literally parkour across all sorts of surfaces, from buildings to boulders, and her reflexive reaction speed is higher than most trained athletes.

This self-reflexive podcast parodies true crime conventions but also keeps you hooked.

Kiarostami made most of his features in Iran, after the 1979 Revolution; his blend of meticulous realism and reflexive modernism, which influenced filmmakers worldwide, also became the emblem of his homeland’s cinema and its inherent conflicts.

Next was the ability to sense and distinguish different types of signals, followed by the reflexive ability to correct errors, such as trying an incorrect path, backing up and trying another.

The authors discuss tests that look at reflexive responses to potentially harmful stimuli like too much pressure or excessive heat.