Abstract

Impersonal pronouns are pervasive in the world’s languages; boundaries between personal and impersonal paradigms are porous. Thus, in many languages, 2nd-person pronouns can be impersonal (i), and vary under the influence of quantificational adverbs like always and rarely. (i) In those days, you always/usually/rarely lived to be 60.

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