in many languages, reflexivity is not overt for person. a prime example is apparent in french "se". french "se" is used to express reflexivity for every expression of the third person, regardless of gender or person. it also functions as a middle, an inchoative, an applicative and an impersonal. for this reason, some theories suggest that reflexive phi-features for languages such as french posit in a level on the syntactic structure that is silent, between the determiner and the noun. this creates a new "silent" projection to a node specifically for φ-reflexives in french structure.