Catalan reciprocals

Catalan encodes reciprocity with the clitic es, identical to the reflexive, and the periphrastic l'un a l'altre, alongside a class of lexical reciprocal verbs, verbs with a transitive entry whose reciprocal reading also emerges without es in language-specific environments. These are the matter of Palmieri's second chapter, whose list of the verbs is Studies/Palmieri2024.lean.

References

• [Pal24]

def Catalan.Reciprocals.seClitic : Reciprocal.Marker

es — reflexive/reciprocal clitic ([Pal24] ch. 2).

Equations

• Catalan.Reciprocals.seClitic = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "es"], strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.recipClitic }

def Catalan.Reciprocals.bipartite : Reciprocal.Marker

l'un a l'altre — periphrastic bipartite reciprocal (consensus periphrastic).

Equations

• Catalan.Reciprocals.bipartite = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "l'un", Morphology.Morph.free "a", Morphology.Morph.free "l'altre"], strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.bipartiteNP }

def Catalan.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

Marker inventory.

Equations

• Catalan.Reciprocals.markers = {Catalan.Reciprocals.seClitic, Catalan.Reciprocals.bipartite}