This article replies to Ackema and Neeleman’s (2018) claim that 1st person singular pronouns are grammatically blocked from having impersonal uses. In connection with this claim, they argue that the impersonal use of German 1st person singular ich described in Zobel 2014 does not exist. I show that Ackema and Neeleman’s alternative analysis of the German data analyzed in Zobel 2014 is flawed, and that new considerations inspired by their proposal further support the claim that German ich has an impersonal use. This result has ramifications not only for Ackema and Neeleman’s account of the morphosyntax and semantics of (impersonally usable) personal pronouns, but also for anyone researching the morphosyntax and semantics of pronominal expressions and how these interact.

这篇文章回应了 Ackema 和 Neeleman (2018) 的说法，即第一人称单数代词在语法上被禁止用于非人称用途。关于这一说法，他们争辩说 Zobel 2014 中描述的德语第一人称单数ich的非人称用法并不存在。我证明了 Ackema 和 Neeleman 对 Zobel 2014 中分析的德国数据的替代分析是有缺陷的，并且受他们提议启发的新考虑进一步支持了德国ich具有非个人用途的说法。这个结果不仅对 Ackema 和 Neeleman 对（非个人可用的）人称代词的形态句法和语义的解释有影响，而且对任何研究代词表达的形态句法和语义以及它们如何相互作用的人都有影响。