English I

impersonal

adj

impersonnel
  • NASH 1968 102

    NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

  • LYONS 1971 379-380

    LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

  • WALES 1989 238-239 (also "impersonality")

    WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

  • PALMATIER 1972 72 (impersonal inversion, impersonal subject)

    PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

  • ELL 5132

    The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

  • BENVENISTE 1971[trans.] 200-201 (also "impersonal (n.)", "non-personal")

    BENVENISTE, Émile. (1971 [trans.]) Problems in General Linguistics. Trans. by Mary Elizabeth Meek. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press.

  • BROWN & LEVINSON 192-194 (impersonal modal, impersonalizing, impersonalization)

    BROWN, Penelope & LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1987) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

  • PEI & GAYNOR 1954 97 (impersonal mood = infinite form)

    PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

  • MATTHEWS 1997 171

    MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • CRYSTAL 2003 345

    CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

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