Mandarin reciprocals

Mandarin can express reciprocity by compounding a verb with lái 'come' and qù 'go' in the pattern V-lái-V-qù: Tāmen dǎ-lái-dǎ-qù 'They beat each other', [KK06]'s example as [Nor23] cites it. König and Kokutani class it as a compound verbal strategy, and [Nor23] notes that [Eva08]'s typology places it among the multiclausal strategies, as verb compounding with a repeated one-way predicate. The adverb hùxiāng 互相 'mutually' also marks reciprocity; adverbs are outside the strategy vocabulary of Reciprocal.Strategy.

References

• [Nor23]
• [KK06]
• [Eva08]

def Mandarin.Reciprocals.compound : Reciprocal.Marker

The V-lái-V-qù compound, as dǎ-lái-dǎ-qù 打来打去 'beat each other': lái 'come' and qù 'go' follow the two copies of the verb.

Equations

• Mandarin.Reciprocals.compound = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.suff "lái", Morphology.Morph.suff "qù"], script := some "打来打去", strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.compoundVerb }

def Mandarin.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal markers.

Equations

• Mandarin.Reciprocals.markers = {Mandarin.Reciprocals.compound}