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<p>Dear Randy,</p>
<p>I am not sure, if this answers your question, but in Bantu
languages the derivational suffix -<i>an</i>, usually labelled a
"reciprocal" often has an array of functions, one of which is that
of a joint action. Thilo Schadeberg's chapter on derivation in the
(2003) Routledge volume on Bantu languages might be a good
starting point, especially the following Zigula example (my
glosses):<br>
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<p><i>mthu na-mbuyaye wa=pang-an-a dende dya-mphasi<br>
</i>person and/with-friend they-share-'reciprocal'-final_vowel leg
of-grasshopper<br>
'A man and his friend share the leg of a grasshopper.' (proverb)
(Schadeberg 2003: 76)<br>
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<p>In my (2017) book on Nyakusa (free .pdf available via LangSci
press) I list the following examples of the reciprocal's sociative
function (p. 90):<br>
<i>jabana</i> 'divide amongst each other' < <i>jaba </i>'divide;
distribute'<br>
<i>gonana </i>'sleep together; copulate' < <i>gona </i>'rest,
sleep'<br>
(-<i>a</i> is the default stem final vowel)<br>
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Hope this somehow helps.<br>
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Best,<br>
Bastian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.07.2018 um 09:33 schrieb Randy J.
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<div class="">A student in China (Liu Weifeng) working on Kyrgyz
asked me for references about collective marking on the verb.
This marking in Kyrgyz (-ish-) is distinct from plural marking,
and used together with plural marking, and implies the action
was done by two or more people together rather than
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<div class="">I am aware of the following article, though do not
have access to it, and don’t even know know for sure whether it
documents this phenomenon:</div>
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<div class="">Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 2007. Reciprocals, assistives
and plural in Kirghiz. In Nedjalkov, Vladimir (with the
assistance of Emma Geniusiene and Zlatka Guentcheva) (eds.),
Typology of reciprocal constructions, 1231-1280. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.</div>
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<div class="">I don't know of any other works on this type of
category in any language. Has this been looked into in any
languages?</div>
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