Impersonality and Related Phenomena: The Basic Issues
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https://doi.org/10.3986/JZ.27.1.08Keywords:
impersonality, lability, subject, argument structure, CroatianAbstract
This article addresses basic issues related to the concept of impersonality. In modern linguistics, impersonality is understood in two ways: in a structural sense and a communicative-functional one. The communicative-functional approach to impersonality is not without merit, but impersonality is not a particularly appropriate term for the phenomena with which this approach is concerned. The downside of the structural approach to impersonality, on the other hand, is its focus on the subject—a category that is not always easily definable in language, generally speaking—as well as its neglect of related phenomena associated with other arguments. This problem could be solved by a more integrated approach to the study of argument structure.
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