Science.Online
Search
Publisher and Institutes
Akademie Verlag
Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Walter de Gruyter
Schattauer
You are here: Home :: Keyword index :: ima bis sem :: recoverability - repentance preacher reflexive

Items for "reflexive"

Semantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages

This article analyses the functions and meanings of the reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) prefix *paRi- in New Caledonian languages and, based on comparisons with other Austronesian languages, seeks to account for their broad polyfunctionality and polysemy in New Caledonia...

Keywords: aspect, Austronesian, collective, cooperative, iterative, middle, New Caledonia, Oceanic, pluractionality, polysemy, reciprocal, reduplication, reflexive, semantic change, transitivity, voice

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers

Intensifiers such as himself/herself in English, ipse/ipsa in Latin, stesso/stessa in Italian, sam/samá in Russian, or selbst in German are most easily identifiable in terms of their prosodic and semantic properties...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages

Reciprocals are characterized by a crossover of thematic roles within a single clause...

Keywords: argument structure, Australian languages, middle, reciprocal, reflexive, transitivity, valency

12/2007 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter