Modern Greek Reciprocal Fragment

[Nor23] [Sil08]

Modern Greek marks reciprocity with nonactive voice morphology (verbal affix strategy, monovalent). The same morphology is used for reflexives, passives, and middles — WALS Ch 106 classifies Greek as "mixed."

CAN form discontinuous reciprocals with "me" ('with'): "O Giannis filithike me ti Maria" ('John kissed with Maria') [Nor23] ex. 27b, 36.

Greek allows discontinuous reciprocals ([Nor23] ex. 27b), which per Siloni's analysis implies lexical formation (Dimitriadis 2004, 2008).

def Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.nonactiveVoiceSuffix : Morphology.MorphRule Bool

Greek nonactive voice suffix as a morphological rule.

The nonactive suffix (various allomorphs: -ome, -omai, etc.) marks reciprocal, reflexive, passive, and middle voice.

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theorem Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.nonactive_is_voice : nonactiveVoiceSuffix.category = Morphology.MorphCategory.voice

The Greek nonactive suffix is a voice operation (not valence).

def Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.nonactive : Reciprocal.Marker

The nonactive suffix as a reciprocal marker — citation allomorph of the paradigm realized by nonactiveVoiceSuffix (stem + -ome), which also serves reflexive, passive, and middle voice ([Nor23] ex. 27). The marker records the exponent's form; the morphological rule itself is the fragment's MorphRule.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.nonactive = { form := "-ome", strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.verbalAffix, readings := [Reciprocal.Reading.reciprocal, Reciprocal.Reading.reflexive] }

def Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.oEnasTonAllon : Reciprocal.Marker

o enas ton allon — distinct periphrastic reciprocal, whose existence underlies the WALS "mixed" classification ([MN13]).

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• Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.oEnasTonAllon = { form := "o enas ton allon", strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.bipartiteNP }

def Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.markers : List Reciprocal.Marker

Marker inventory, primary strategy first.

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• Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.markers = [Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.nonactive, Greek.StandardModern.Reciprocals.oEnasTonAllon]