New topic -- stative pronouns with reflexives?
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Jan 14 00:11:04 UTC 2004
For what it's worth, I've argued that the -hki(k)- reflexive/reciprocal is
an incorporated co-verb 'be with'. I forget where I delivered the paper,
but, of course, I still have it.
John E. Koontz
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, ROOD DAVID S wrote:
> This is not typologically all that unusual -- Geraldine Legendre has
> argued that the reflexive in French is a de-transitivizing morpheme, not a
> direct object (cf. the conjugation with "etre", e.g.) Cross
> linguistically both patterns seem to occur. Of course, I agree that it's
> odd to see fairly closely related languages split on this.
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