TY - BOOK ID - 22927447 TI - Reciprocals : forms and functions AU - Frajzyngier, Zygmunt AU - Curl, Traci S. PY - 2000 VL - 41 SN - 9027229406 1556196547 9786612162848 1282162845 9027298580 9789027298584 9781556196546 9789027229403 9781282162846 6612162848 PB - Amsterdam : Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - 801.56 KW - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Grammar KW - Grammar [Comparative and general ] KW - Reciprocals KW - Reflexives KW - Grammaticalization KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Reciprocals. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Reciprocals. KW - Reflexives. KW - Grammaticalization. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22927447 AB - The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering alternative hypotheses regarding the grammaticalization of reciprocals. The formal, functional, typological and historical approaches in the present volume complement each other, contributing together to the understanding of forms, and syntactic and semantic properties of reciprocal markers. Several papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: they provide new descriptive data and they address theoretical issues at the same time. The languages discussed include: English, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Nyulnyulan (Australia), Amharic(Ethio-Semitic), Bilin (Cushitic), Chadic languages, Bantu, Halkomelem (Salishan), Mandarin, Yukaghir and a number of Oceanic languages. The volume also includes a study of grammaticalization of reciprocals andreflexives in African languages. ER -