Russian reciprocals

Russian marks reciprocity with the bipartite drug druga 'other other-ACC', the bipartite quantifier strategy of English each other ([Nor23] ex. 9): it fills the object position, its second part taking the case the verb assigns while the first stays nominative. The verbal postfix -sja also forms reciprocal verbs (ex. 31) and is shared with the reflexive.

References

• R. Nordlinger, The Typology of Reciprocal Constructions (2023)

def Russian.Reciprocals.drugDruga : Reciprocal.Marker

друг друга drug druga — bipartite reciprocal 'other other-ACC' ([Nor23] ex. 9).

Equations

• Russian.Reciprocals.drugDruga = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "drug", Morphology.Morph.free "druga"], script := some "друг друга", strategy := Reciprocal.Strategy.bipartiteNP }

def Russian.Reciprocals.sja : Reciprocal.Marker

-ся -sja — verbal postfix, reflexive-identical reciprocal uses ([Nor23] ex. 31).

Equations

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def Russian.Reciprocals.sebja : ReflexivePronoun

себя sebja — the reflexive pronoun (for contrast), one form for every person and number.

Equations

• Russian.Reciprocals.sebja = { form := "sebja", script := some "себя" }

def Russian.Reciprocals.markers : Finset Reciprocal.Marker

Marker inventory.

Equations

• Russian.Reciprocals.markers = {Russian.Reciprocals.drugDruga, Russian.Reciprocals.sja}