impersonal possessive snowglobe
“(just/it’s) your standard….”
“(just/it’s) your basic…”
“(just/it’s) your everyday….”
“(just/it’s) your garden variety….”
‘(just/it’s) your run of the mill….”
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Draws upon common background between speaker & listener.
A non-determiner. Can it be said to share semantic space with possessive form of the impersonal pronoun?
Used to indicate that object or situation is generic in a way familiar to listener by virtue of some shared or common (possessed) worldview/knowledge set;
object is of accepted, standardized, run-of-the-mill nature/design/construction
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