English reciprocals

English marks reciprocity with the two-part noun phrases each other and one another, which fill an argument slot of a bivalent clause and are distinct from the reflexive themselves. A closed class of predicates such as meet, quarrel and kiss is reciprocal without any marker. The markers are those of the pronoun entries in Fragments/English/Pronouns.lean. The lexical strategy has no exponent: the verbs' Levin classes record it, not the marker inventory.

References

• R. Nordlinger, The Typology of Reciprocal Constructions (2023)
• T. Siloni, Reciprocal Verbs and Symmetry (2012)

def English.Reciprocals.eachOther : Reciprocal.Marker

The marker of each other, from its pronoun entry.

Equations

• English.Reciprocals.eachOther = English.Pronouns.eachOther.toMarker

def English.Reciprocals.oneAnother : Reciprocal.Marker

The marker of one another, from its pronoun entry.

Equations

• English.Reciprocals.oneAnother = English.Pronouns.oneAnother.toMarker

def English.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal marker inventory.

Equations

• English.Reciprocals.markers = {English.Reciprocals.eachOther, English.Reciprocals.oneAnother}