Reflexive constructions in the world's languages

Katarzyna Janic · Nicoletta Puddu · Martin Haspelmath

juli 2023 · Research on Comparative Grammar Bok 3 · Language Science Press

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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.

Om forfatteren

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 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 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).