Reciprocal constructions / edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nedi︠a︡lkov, V. P. (Vladimir Petrovich)

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 71.

Typological studies in language ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Reciprocals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 2219 p.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of contributors

Foreword by Bernard Comrie

Preface by Vladimir Nedjalkov

Part I. Typological aspects of the investigation of reciprocals

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

2. Lexical reciprocals as a means of expressing reciprocal situations

3. Encoding of the reciprocal meaning

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

5. Polysemy of reciprocal markers

6. Reciprocal and polyadic (Remarkable reciprocals in Bantu)

7. Reciprocal derivation involving non-verbals

8. Questionnaire on reciprocals

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

Part II. Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers

A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers

10. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in German

11. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in Polish

12. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in French

13. Reciprocal and reflexive constructions in Bulgarian

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

15. Reciprocal constructions in Russian

16. Reciprocals in Vedic

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

18. Reciprocal, reflexive, and sociative in Adyghe

19. Reciprocals in West Greenlandic Eskimo

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only

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

C. Pronominal reciprocal marker only

21. Reciprocal constructions in Djaru

Part III. Sociative-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers

22. Reciprocal, sociative, and comitative constructions in Tagalog

23. Reciprocal constructions in Udehe

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

25. Reciprocal, sociative, and competitive constructions in Japanese

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

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

28. Reciprocals, assistives, and plural in Kirghiz

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

30. Reciprocal and sociative, reflexive and reciprocal in Tariana

31. Reciprocal constructions in Bolivian Quechua

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

32. Reciprocal constructions in Warrungu

Part V. Sociative-reciprocal-iterative polysemy of reciprocal markers

33. Reciprocal constructions in Indonesian

34. Polysemy of the reciprocal marker in Nêlêmwa

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

Part VI. Non-prototypical polysemy

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

37. Reciprocals in Mundari

Part VII. Monosemous reciprocal markers

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

39. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Even

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

41. Reciprocal constructions in Nivkh (Gilyak)

42. Reciprocals and sociatives in Ainu

43. Reciprocals in Itelmen (Kamchadal)

44. Reciprocals in Yukaghir languages

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

C. Mostly pronominal reciprocal markers

46. Reciprocal and sociative constructions in Bamana

47. Reciprocal constructions in Vietnamese

48. Reciprocal constructions in Ancient Chinese

49. Reciprocal constructions in Modern Chinese

Part VIII. Assessments

50. Comments

Name index

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152375

9781282152373

1282152378

9789027291714

9027291713