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non-ˈpersonal, a. and n.
[non- 3, 2.]
A. adj. Not personal.
B. n. Something that is not personal, or not a person; spec. a pronoun representing a non-personal noun.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xx. 500 The contention of the survival-theory that we ought to stick to non-personal elements exclusively. 1925Grattan & Gurrey Our Living Lang. 189 With Non-Personals the idea of possession is commonly not present—for example—I have recovered this book and mended the (not its) back. 1928O. Jespersen Internat. Lang. ii. 128 If there is an apparatus called in this way, the word belongs to the non-personal class: telegrafe (the apparatus), telegrafa vb, telegrafo telegraphing. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. ix. 146 It has the class-meanings of substantives, singulars, non-personals. Ibid. xv. 253 The English definite or third-person pronouns..differ.., in the singular, for personal and non-personal antecedents: personal he, she, versus non-personal it. 1957R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. ix. ii. 315 The addition of -ish to other personal nouns: boyish, girlish (= proper to the nature of), and to a few non-personal nouns (feverish). 1965English Studies XLVI. 228 It perfectly focusses the gap between a personal standard and the non-personal sonorities of Roman ‘honor’. |