Hungarian reciprocals

Hungarian expresses reciprocity with the pronoun egymás 'each other', the compound of the numeral egy 'one' and the distributor más 'other', which fills the object position and keeps the verb transitive, a gyerekek látták egymást 'the children saw each other', and with the verbal suffix -óz-, which yields a monovalent verb, János és Mari csókolóztak 'János and Mari kissed'. As Rákosi notes, egymás is invariable, showing no person or number inflection, whereas the reflexive maga 'oneself' has a full paradigm, maga in the singular and maguk in the plural; Hungarian has no grammatical gender, so neither shows gender. The antecedents egymás tolerates are the matter of Studies/Rakosi2019.lean.

Main definitions

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.egymas, Hungarian.Reciprocals.ozSuffix, Hungarian.Reciprocals.markers: the reciprocal pronoun, the verbal suffix and the marker inventory.
• Hungarian.Reciprocals.maga, Hungarian.Reciprocals.maguk: the third person reflexive.

References

• [Rak19]
• [Nor23]
• [Sil08]

def Hungarian.Reciprocals.egymas : ReciprocalPronoun

The reciprocal pronoun egymás 'each other', invariable.

Equations

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.egymas = { form := "egymás", person := some Person.third }

def Hungarian.Reciprocals.ozSuffix : Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal verbal suffix -óz-.

Equations

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.ozSuffix = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.suff "óz"], strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.verbalAffix }

def Hungarian.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal markers.

Equations

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.markers = {Hungarian.Reciprocals.ozSuffix, Hungarian.Reciprocals.egymas.toMarker}

def Hungarian.Reciprocals.maga : ReflexivePronoun

The third person singular reflexive maga.

Equations

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.maga = { form := "maga", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.singular }

def Hungarian.Reciprocals.maguk : ReflexivePronoun

The third person plural reflexive maguk.

Equations

• Hungarian.Reciprocals.maguk = { form := "maguk", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.plural }