transitivity, locative prefixes & the pronomin. argument hypothesis.

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, ROOD DAVID S wrote:
> I can tell you what happens in Lakhota, if that helps.

So, ignore my summary of the Dakota, which was off the mark!

> Again, from the Lakhota perspective, see the Legendre and Rood paper in
> BLS 18 (1992).  Geraldine used the difference between reflexives and
> reciprocals to argue that the reflexive was NOT an object, but rather a
> de-transitivizing operator that required a stative subject, whereas the
> reciprocal behaved like the object of transitive verbs.

In OP the reflexive-reciprocal is active intransitive.

JEK