[Lingtyp] "Double reflexive" constructions

Wed Dec 8 19:06:05 UTC 2021

Dear Jess, dear Peter,

Thank you very much for your contributions. This is exactly the kind of
references I am looking for!

For those interested, the relation between reflexive and 'refactive' (a
term which I confess I didn't know) is also investigated in

Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 2012. The concept 'return' as a source of different
developments in Oceanic languages. *Oceanic Linguistics *51(1), 234-260.

Best wishes,
R

Peter Arkadiev <peterarkadiev at yandex.ru> escreveu no dia quarta, 8/12/2021
à(s) 19:50:

> Dear Riccardo, dear typologists,
>
> in Northwest Caucasian languages reflexive (as well as reciprocal)
> constructions often contain, in addition to a dedicated reflexive (resp.
> reciprocal) marker, an optional refactive ('back, again') suffix. See
> examples from West Circassian here:
> Arkadiev, Peter & Alexander Letuchiy. 2011. Prefixes and suffixes in the
> Adyghe polysynthetic wordform: Types of interaction. In: Vittorio S.
> Tomelleri, Manana Topadze & Anna Lukianowicz (eds.), Languages and Cultures
> in the Caucasus. Munchen, Berlin: Otto Sagner, 2011, pp. 495—514.
>
> https://inslav.ru/images/stories/people/arkadiev/ArkadievLetuchij_2011_AdyghePrefSuff.pdf
>
> On the relations between reflexive and refactive, see
> Stoynova, Natalia. 2009. Repetitive and reflexive: Semantic and
> cross-linguistic relations. Handout of the talk at Young Linguists’ Meeting
> in Poznan.
> Stoynova, Natalia. 2010. Refleksivnye i refaktivnye značenija:
> semantičeskie i tipologičeskie svjazi [Reflexive and refactive meanings:
> semantic and typological links]. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Ser. 9,
> Filologija 3: 115–132.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
> 08.12.2021, 20:16, "Riccardo Giomi" <rgiomi at campus.ul.pt>:
>
> Dear typologists,
>
> I am looking for languages in which, with some predicates at least,
> unambiguous expression of reflexivity is only attained by combining two
> separate markers. Typically, the elements participating in such
> "double-reflexive" constructions (quotes needed) belong to one of the
> following, broadly-defined classes:
>
> - a valency-decreasing "middle" marker / intransitivizer (usually, though
> not necessarily a bound morpheme);
>
> - a reflexive, personal or logophoric pronoun;
>
> - a so-called reflexive intensifier, i.e. an element that functions like
> English reflexive pronouns in appositional or adverbial position (e.g. *I
> myself swept the ground / I swept the ground myself*).
>
> Below are a few examples of possible combinations of such elements (I have
> harmonized the glosses used by the various authors):
> Intransitivizer + reflexive pronoun: Kuuk Thaayorre
> [image: immagine.png]
>
> Intransitivizer + personal pronoun: Hmwaveke
> [image: immagine.png]
>
> Intransitivizer + intensifier (attached to the (subject) nominal and
> glossed 'SELF'): Dyirbal
> [image: immagine.png]
>
> Intransitivizer + intensifier (attached to the verb): Mezquital Otomí
> [image: immagine.png]
>
> (Gast & Siemund 2006: 368. The authors also give an example in which the
> intensifier takes the longer form *sε̌hε̒ *and occurs as an unbound
> adverb-like element.)
>
> Intensifier (marked ergative, in apposition to the (subject) nominal) +
> personal/logophoric pronoun (marked absolutive) : Tsakhur
> [image: immagine.png]
>
> If any of you is aware of a language in which "double marking" of
> reflexivity is the only option, that would be especially helpful; but, more
> generally, I am interested in all such constructions -- or possibly other,
> comparable ones which I may be leaving out of the picture. (Please don't
> bother signalling Germanic or Romance data like German *sich + selbst* or
> Spanish *si + a si mismo* -- I am already taking those into account.)
>
> Many thanks in advance, best wishes,
> Riccardo
>
> References
> Dik, Simon C. 1983. The Status of verbal reflexives. In Liliane Tasmowski
> & Dominique Willems (eds.), *Problems in syntax*, 231–255. New York &
> London: Plenum Press.
> Gaby, Alice. 2006. *A grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre.* Melbourne: University
> of Melbourne dissertation.
> Gast, Volker & Peter Siemund. 2006. Rethinking the relationship between
> SELF-intensifiers and reflexives". *Linguistics* 44(2), 343-381.
> Lyutikova, Ekaterina A. 2000. Reflexives and emphasis in Tsaxur
> (Nakh-Dagestanian). In Z. Frajzyngier and T. Curl (eds.), *Reflexives:
> Forms and Functions, *227-255. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
> Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 2008. Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and
> reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages. In Ekkehard König & Volker
> Gast (eds.), *Reciprocals* *and reflexives: Theoretical and typological
> explorations*, 105–168. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
>
> --
> Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D.
> University of Liège
> Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction
> Research group *Linguistique contrastive et typologie des langues*
> F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral fellow (CR - FC 43095)
>
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> Peter Arkadiev, PhD Habil.
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> Russian Academy of Sciences
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