Portuguese reciprocals

Brazilian Portuguese marks reciprocity with the clitic se, which is also the reflexive and yields a monovalent predicate, and with the bipartite um o outro 'one the other'. Beside these a class of transitive verbs has a lexical reciprocal entry: with abraçar 'hug' and its siblings the reciprocal reading also arises without se, in Brazilian Portuguese both in finite clauses, X e Y abraçaram, and in analytic causatives, eu fiz X e Y abraçarem, the two environments of Palmieri's table where the clitic may be omitted. The lexical reciprocals are entries of Portuguese.Verbs, and their two-entry analysis is the matter of Studies/Palmieri2024.lean.

Main definitions

• Portuguese.Reciprocals.seClitic, Portuguese.Reciprocals.bipartite, Portuguese.Reciprocals.markers: the reciprocal markers.
• Portuguese.Reciprocals.lexicalReciprocals: the verbs with a lexical reciprocal entry.

References

• [Pal24]

def Portuguese.Reciprocals.seClitic : Reciprocal.Marker

The clitic se in its reciprocal use, also the reflexive.

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def Portuguese.Reciprocals.bipartite : Reciprocal.Marker

The bipartite um o outro 'one the other'.

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• Portuguese.Reciprocals.bipartite = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "um", Morphology.Morph.free "o", Morphology.Morph.free "outro"], strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.bipartiteNP }

def Portuguese.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

The reciprocal markers.

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

def Portuguese.Reciprocals.lexicalReciprocals : List Verb

The verbs with a lexical reciprocal entry, whose reciprocal reading survives without se in finite clauses and analytic causatives.

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