Reciprocal Constructions

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Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Emma Š. Geniušienė | Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Zlatka Guentchéva | Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constructions (of the type The two boys hit each other, The poets admire each other’s poems) have often been the subject of language-particular studies, but it is only in this work that a truly global comparative picture emerges. Nine stage-setting chapters dealing with general and theoretical matters are followed by 40 chapters containing in-depth descriptions of reciprocals in individual languages by renowned specialists. The introductory papers provide a conceptual and terminological framework that allows the authors of the individual chapters to characterize their languages in comparable terms, making it easy for the reader to see points of commonality between languages and constructions that have never been compared before. This set of volumes is an indispensable starting point and will be a lasting reference work for any future studies of reciprocals.

[Typological Studies in Language, 71] 2007. xxiii, 2219 pp. (5 vols.)

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.71

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. xiii–xvi

Foreword by Bernard Comrie | pp. xvii–xix

Preface by Vladimir Nedjalkov | pp. xxi–xxiii

Abbreviations
Part I. Typological aspects of the investigation of reciprocals

1. Overview of the research. Definitions of terms, framework, and related issues

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 3–114

2. Lexical reciprocals as a means of expressing reciprocal situations

Jurij P. Knjazev | pp. 115–146

3. Encoding of the reciprocal meaning

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 147–207

4. Sociativity, conjoining, reciprocity and the Latin prefix com-

Anna A. Zalizniak and Alexei D. Shmelev | pp. 209–229

5. Polysemy of reciprocal markers

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 231–333

6. Reciprocal and polyadic (Remarkable reciprocals in Bantu)

Elena S. Maslova | pp. 335–352

7. Reciprocal derivation involving non-verbals

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 353–377

8. Questionnaire on reciprocals

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Emma Š. Geniušienė | pp. 379–434

9. Some typologically relevant properties of reciprocal markers and arrangement of the subsequent chapters

Emma Š. Geniušienė | pp. 435–451

Part II. Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers
A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

10. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in German

Björn Wiemer and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 455–512

11. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in Polish

Björn Wiemer | pp. 513–559

12. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in French

Zlatka Guentchéva and Nicole Rivière | pp. 561–607

13. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in Bulgarian

Iordan Penchev | pp. 609–631

14. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in Lithuanian (with references to Latvian)

Emma Š. Geniušienė | pp. 633–672

15. Reciprocal constructions in Russian

Jurij P. Knjazev | pp. 673–707

16. Reciprocals in Vedic

Leonid Kulikov | pp. 709–738

17. Reciprocal, comitative, sociative, and reflexive in Kabardian

Konstantin I. Kazenin | pp. 739–771

18. Reciprocal, reflexive, and sociative in Adyghe

Alexander Letuchiy | pp. 773–811

19. Reciprocals in West Greenlandic Eskimo

Michael Fortescue | pp. 813–842

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

20. Reciprocals and reflexives in North Arawak languages of the Upper Rio Negro (Warekena, Bare, Baniwa of Içana)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 845–855

C. Pronominal reciprocal marker only

21. Reciprocal constructions in Djaru

Tasaku Tsunoda | pp. 859–884

Part III. Sociative-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers
A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

22. Reciprocal, sociative, and comitative constructions in Tagalog

Lina I. Shkarban and Gennadij E. Rachkov | pp. 887–931

23. Reciprocal constructions in Udehe

Irina Nikolaeva | pp. 933–967

24. Reciprocals, sociatives, and competitives in Karachay-Balkar

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Igor' V. Nedjalkov | pp. 969–1019

25. Reciprocal, sociative, and competitive constructions in Japanese

Vladimir M. Alpatov and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1021–1094

26. Reciprocals, sociatives, comitatives, and assistives in Yakut

Igor' V. Nedjalkov and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1095–1161

27. Reciprocals, sociatives, comitatives, and assistives in Tuvan

Klara B. Kuular | pp. 1163–1229

28. Reciprocals, assistives, and plural in Kirghiz

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1231–1279

29. Reciprocal, sociative, and assistive constructions in Buryat and Khalkha-Mongol

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, Elena K. Skribnik, Evgenij A. Kuzmenkov and Natalija S. Yakhontova | pp. 1281–1348

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

30. Reciprocal and sociative, reflexive and reciprocal in Tariana: Their genetic and areal properties

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 1351–1366

31. Reciprocal constructions in Bolivian Quechua

Simon van de Kerke | pp. 1367–1399

Part IV. Reflexive-reciprocal-sociative polysemy of reciprocal markers. Verbal reciprocal marker only

32. Reciprocal constructions in Warrungu

Tasaku Tsunoda | pp. 1403–1434

Part V. Sociative-reciprocal-iterative polysemy of reciprocal markers
A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

33. Reciprocal constructions in Indonesian

Aleksandr K. Ogloblin and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1437–1476

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

34. Polysemy of the reciprocal marker in Nêlêmwa

Isabelle Bril | pp. 1479–1509

35. Reciprocal, sociative, reflexive, and iterative constructions in East Futunan

Claire Moyse-Faurie | pp. 1511–1543

Part VI. Non-prototypical polysemy
A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

36. Reciprocals and related meanings in To’aba’ita

Frank Lichtenberk | pp. 1547–1571

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

37. Reciprocals in Mundari

Toshiki Osada | pp. 1575–1590

Part VII. Monosemous reciprocal markers
A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

38. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Evenki (with an appendix on Manchu)

Igor' V. Nedjalkov and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1593–1642

39. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Even

Andrej L. Malchukov | pp. 1643–1675

40 Reciprocal constructions in Chukchi (with an appendix on Koryak)

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1677–1713

41. Reciprocal constructions in Nivkh (Gilyak)

Galina A. Otaina and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1715–1747

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

42. Reciprocals and sociatives in Ainu

Vladimir M. Alpatov, Anna Bugaeva and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 1751–1822

43. Reciprocals in Itelmen (Kamchadal)

Aleksandr P. Volodin | pp. 1823–1833

44. Reciprocals in Yukaghir languages

Elena S. Maslova | pp. 1835–1863

45. Reciprocal, response reciprocal, and distributive constructions in Cashinahua

Eliane Camargo | pp. 1865–1912

C. Mostly pronominal reciprocal markers

46. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Bamana

Valentin Vydrin | pp. 1915–1940

47. Reciprocal constructions in Vietnamese

Igor S. Bystrov and Nonna V. Stankevich | pp. 1941–1960

48. Reciprocal constructions in Ancient Chinese

Sergej E. Yakhontov | pp. 1961–1984

49. Reciprocal constructions in Modern Chinese

Monique Hoa, Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and Tamara N. Nikitina | pp. 1985–2115

Part VIII. Assessments

50. Comments

Martin Haspelmath

Name index

Emma Š. Geniušienė | pp. 2117–2123

Language index

Emma Š. Geniušienė | pp. 2125–2133

Subject index

Sergej A. Krylov | pp. 2135–2213

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