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expl:impers: impersonal expletive

The expl:impers relation is used for impersonal se in clauses with no syntactic subject. The verb shows default third-person singular agreement. In se perde conoscensa “one loses consciousness”, conoscensa remains obj.

1	se	se	PRON	_	_	2	expl:impers	_	Gloss=one
2	perde	perde	VERB	_	Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=loses
3	conoscensa	conoscensa	NOUN	_	_	2	obj	_	Gloss=consciousness

In reflexive passives with a syntactic subject, the clitic takes expl:pass instead.


expl:impers in other languages: [it] [lij] [naq] [qpm] [u]