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expl:impers: impersonal expletive

The relation expl:impers is a sub-class of expl. It is applied on the impersonal use of the reflective pronoun , , specifically. There may be an impersonal construction for every verb, both transitive and intransitive, where the role of the subject is played by the pronoun itself in terms of significance, but it is predominantly expressed by another clausal subject:

dúmi só óti  si našól líry 
said it that he found golden.sovereigns
`it is said  that he has found golden.sovereigns'
           
expl:impers(dúmi, só)
csubj(dúmi, našól)

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