35.1747, Books: Lexical and Grammatical Reciprocity: Palmieri (2024)

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Date: 12-Jun-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Lexical and Grammatical Reciprocity: Palmieri (2024)


Title: Lexical and Grammatical Reciprocity
Subtitle: Perspectives from Romance, Bantu and beyond
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL:
https://www.lotpublications.nl/lexical-and-grammatical-reciprocity

Author: Giada Palmieri
Paperback: ISBN: 978-94-6093-456-8 Pages: 205 Price: Europe EURO 34
Abstract:

In English, reciprocal meanings can be expressed through two distinct
strategies: grammatical and lexical. Grammatical reciprocity involves
dedicated elements that target a verb’s argument and express
mutuality, as in the sentence “The girls kissed each other”, whereas
lexical reciprocity is expressed by an intransitive predicate, as in
“The girls kissed”.

Unlike English, many languages do not clearly differentiate between
these two reciprocal strategies. Reciprocal interpretations are
commonly associated with the element “si” in Italian, or with the
verbal marker “an” in Swahili, without an apparent distinction between
lexical and grammatical processes.

This thesis focuses on the characterization of lexical reciprocity as
opposed to grammatical reciprocity, particularly in Romance and Bantu
languages where only one reciprocal form is available on the surface.
The proposed analysis studies the contribution of reciprocal markers
in these languages, and covers a broad cross-linguistic sample of
phenomena that are distinctive of lexical reciprocal predicates.

By analyzing central semantic and morphosyntactic properties of
reciprocals, this thesis offers a unifying perspective on the
characterization of reciprocity across languages, irrespective of
whether they show an evident distinction between lexical and
grammatical processes.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Written In: English (eng)



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