Glossary term R

Reciprocal Pronoun

A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a mutual feeling or action among the referents of a plural subject.

  • They hit each other.
  • They like each other.
  1. Crystal 1985, 257
  2. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 192
  3. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 364
  4. Mish 1991, 982
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