Reflexive constructions in the world's languages

Katarzyna Janic (ed), Nicoletta Puddu (ed), Martin Haspelmath (ed)

Synopsis

This landmark publication brings together 28 papers on reflexive constructions in languages from all continents, representing very diverse language types. While reflexive constructions have been discussed in the past from a variety of angles, this is the first edited volume of its kind. All the chapters are based on original data, and they are broadly comparable through a common terminological framework. The volume opens with two introductory chapters by the editors that set the stage and lay out the main comparative concepts, and it concludes with a chapter presenting generalizations on the basis of the studies of individual languages.

Chapters

  • Introducing the cross-linguistic comparison of reflexive constructions
    Nicoletta Puddu, Katarzyna Janic
    Chapter 1
  • Comparing reflexive constructions in the world’s languages
    Martin Haspelmath
    Chapter 2
  • Reflexive constructions in Bangime
    Abbie Hantgan-Sonko
    Chapter 3
  • Reflexive constructions in Hausa
    Mahamane L. Abdoulaye
    Chapter 4
  • Reflexive constructions in Jóola Fóoñi
    Denis Creissels, Alain Christian Bassène
    Chapter 5
  • Reflexive constructions in Kambaata
    Yvonne Treis
    Chapter 6
  • Reflexive constructions in Luganda
    Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Erika Just, Saudah Namyalo
    Chapter 7
  • Reflexive constructions in Mano
    Maria Khachaturyan
    Chapter 8
  • Reflexive constructions in Abaza
    Peter M. Arkadiev, Sonia Durneva
    Chapter 9
  • Reflexivity in Kazym Khanty
    Anna Volkova, Svetlana Toldova
    Chapter 10
  • Reflexive constructions in Polish
    Katarzyna Janic
    Chapter 11
  • Reflexive constructions in Thulung
    Aimée Lahaussois
    Chapter 12
  • Reflexive constructions in Early Vedic
    Roland Pooth, Verónica Orqueda
    Chapter 13
  • Reflexive constructions in Yiddish
    Elena Luchina
    Chapter 14
  • Reflexive and middle constructions in Chini
    Joseph Brooks
    Chapter 15
  • The middle template and other ways of expressing coreferenceKomnzo
    Christian Döhler
    Chapter 16
  • Reflexive constructions in Nungon
    Hanna Sarvasy
    Chapter 17
  • Reflexive constructions in Walman
    Matthew S. Dryer, Lea Brown
    Chapter 18
  • Reflexive constructions in Waray
    Thomas E. Payne, Voltaire Q. Oyzon
    Chapter 19
  • The reflexive voice construction in Anindilyakwa
    Marie-Elaine van Egmond
    Chapter 20
  • The reflexive construction in Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru
    Eva Schultze-Berndt
    Chapter 21
  • Reflexive constructions in Kuuk Thaayorre
    Alice R. Gaby
    Chapter 22
  • Reflexive constructions in Warlpiri
    Mary Laughren
    Chapter 23
  • Coreference constructions in Zenzontepec Chatino
    Eric W. Campbell
    Chapter 24
  • Reflexive constructions in Hoocąk
    Johannes Helmbrecht
    Chapter 25
  • Reflexive prefixes in Oneida
    Karin Michelson
    Chapter 26
  • Reflexive constructions in Yaqui
    Lilián Guerrero
    Chapter 27
  • Reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Aguaruna
    Simon E. Overall
    Chapter 28
  • Reflexive constructions in Kakataibo
    Roberto Zariquiey
    Chapter 29
  • Reflexive constructions and middle marking in Mojeño Trinitario
    Françoise Rose
    Chapter 30
  • Crosslinguistic generalizations about reflexive constructions
    Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu
    Chapter 31
  • Questionnaire on reflexive constructions in the world’s languages
    Katarzyna Janic, Martin Haspelmath
    Chapter 32

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Biographies

Katarzyna Janic, Adam Mickiewicz University

Katarzyna Janic is a post-doctoral researcher who obtained her PhD degree at Lyon 2 University. Her thesis The antipassive in accusative languages was awarded the Greenberg Award from the Association of Linguistic Typology. She started her postdoctoral research career at Zürich University and then she continued at Leipzig University as a member of Martin Haspelmath's ERC project Grammatical Universals. Her research is directed towards syntactic structures investigated from a crosslinguistically comparative perspective. She has been interested in reflexive constructions since her second M.A. thesis Typology of reflexive verbs in Polish and French (Lyon 2 University). This topic figures prominently in her various contributions including the published PhD dissertation.

Nicoletta Puddu, University of Cagliari

Nicoletta Puddu is a professor of linguistics at the University of Cagliari (Italy). She received her PhD from the University of Pavia, and her dissertation was published in 2005 (Reflexives and intensifiers: Greek, Latin and the other Indo-European languages). Her research interests are in Indo-European linguistics, typology, historical corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Sardinian.

Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leipzig University

Martin Haspelmath is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and an honorary professor at Leipzig University. He co-founded Language Science Press and has made many contributions to worldwide comparative grammar research and is perhaps best known as a co-editor of the World atlas of language structures. He has been interested in reflexive constructions since his first published paper (Transitivity alternations of the anticausative type (1987), published as a University of Cologne working paper).

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March 22, 2021 — Updated on August 1, 2023

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Research on Comparative Grammar

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2749-781X

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Janic, Katarzyna, Puddu, Nicoletta & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). 2023. Reflexive constructions in the world's languages. (Research on Comparative Grammar 3). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7861660
Copyright (c) 2021 Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu, Martin Haspelmath (Volume Editor)

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