[Lingtyp] "Double reflexive" constructions

Wed Dec 8 19:22:24 UTC 2021

Dear Riccardo,

In the South American Indigenous Language Structures database (
sails.clld.org) there are seven languages that have reflexive constructions
that combine verbal morphology [argex10-1] and (optional) reflexive
pronouns [argex10-3]. The languages listed are Jaqaru, Lokono, Yuracaré,
Moseten, Wayoró, Jauja Wanca Quechua and Shipibo-Conibo. Have a look at the
references provided in the database. They may include the sort of
information you are looking for.

All the best,
Josh

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 12:06 PM Riccardo Giomi <rgiomi at campus.ul.pt> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>> --
>> Peter Arkadiev, PhD Habil.
>> Institute of Slavic Studies
>> Russian Academy of Sciences
>> Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow
>> peterarkadiev at yandex.ru
>> http://inslav.ru/people/arkadev-petr-mihaylovich-peter-arkadiev
>>
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