How about coordinated subjects with a reflexive object - when only one of the subjects is reflexively referred to? As an example:
John or Eve is going to drive himself to town. (I.e. either John or Eve does the driving, and only in the previous case is it a genuine reflexive.)
Neither these men nor the authorities are going to keep themselves from behaving badly. (I.e. not the authorities doing the misbehaving.)
Is such a half-reflexive permitted in any language?
No comments:
Post a Comment