Impersonality may refer to: *

Impersonal passive voice The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Aikhenvald (1997). "A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions". In Bybee, Joan, ...

, a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero *

Impersonal verb In linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "''It rains''", ''rain'' is an impersonal verb and the pronoun ''it'' corresponds to an exophoric referrent. In many languages the verb takes ...

, a verb that cannot take a true subject * Impersonal (grammar), a grammatical gender in languages such as Sumerian and Slavic languages *

Impersonal pronoun ''One'' is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes appears with first- or second-person reference. It ...

, a descriptor of a pronoun set, referred as one/one's/oneself in English * Impersonal you, another word for generic you

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