'You do it like this!': bare impersonals as indefinite singular generics
Sentences with impersonal pronouns, like You do it like this, seem to make both statistical and prescriptive claims, that a certain way of behaving is common and that it is prescriptively good. We argue that these kinds of sentences are closely related to another kind of sentence, namely, indefinite...
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Taylor & Francis
2024
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