%0 Book Section
%A Haspelmath, Martin
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Comparing reflexive constructions in the world's languages : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-A3D2-B
%R 10.5281/zenodo.7861660
%D 2023
%8 23.03.2023
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The past four decades have seen a lot of new research on reflexive constructions<br>that goes far beyond the earlier literature, and a variety of technical terms have<br>been used. The divergent frameworks have made some of this literature hard to<br>access. This paper provides a nontechnical overview of the most important kinds<br>of phenomena in the world’s languages and offers a coherent conceptual<br>frame-work and a set of cross-linguistically applicable technical terms, defined also in<br>an appendix. I also explain other widely used terms that do not form part of the<br>present conceptual system (defined in another appendix). The paper begins with a<br>definition of the most basic term (reflexive construction) and then moves to types<br>of reflexivizers (reflexive pronouns and reflexive voice markers), as well as<br>syntactic concepts such as ranks and domains. I also briefly discuss obviative anaphoric<br>pronouns and antireflexive marking. Finally, I introduce the distinction between<br>discourse-referential and co-varying coreference. The general philosophy is that<br>we will understand general questions about reflexive constructions (i.e. questions<br>not restricted to the language-particular level) only when we know what is<br>universal and what is historically accidental, so there is also an appendix that lists some<br>possible universals of reflexive constructions.
%B Reflexive constructions in the world's languages
%P 19 - 62
%I Language Science Press
%C Berlin
%@ 978-3-96110-411-6 978-3-98554-069-3