TY - BOOK ID - 369586 TI - Reciprocals and semantic typology PY - 2011 VL - 98. SN - 9789027206794 9789027286628 9027206791 9027286620 1283234475 9786613234476 9781283234474 6613234478 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Semantics KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - Sémantique KW - --Semantics. KW - Languages. KW - Semantics. KW - Typology (Linguistics). KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Language and languages KW - Linguistic typology KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Typology KW - Linguistics KW - Linguistic universals KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Classification KW - --Semantics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:369586 AB - Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within Government and Binding Theory), and the centrality of reciprocity to theories of social structure, human evolution and social cognition. No existing work, however, tackles the question of exactly what reciprocal constructions mean cross-linguistically. Is there a single, Platonic 'reciprocal' meaning found ER -