Typology.ArgumentStructure #
@cite{maslova-nedjalkov-2013} @cite{siewierska-2013} @cite{haspelmath-2013-ditransitive} @cite{polinsky-2013-antipassive} @cite{polinsky-2013-applicative} @cite{song-2013-periphrastic} @cite{song-2013-nonperiphrastic} @cite{nordlinger-2023} @cite{konig-kokutani-2006} @cite{siloni-2008} @cite{siloni-2012}
Per-language typological substrate for valence and voice constructions, covering WALS chapters 105--111:
- Ch 105 (@cite{haspelmath-2013-ditransitive}): Ditransitive constructions ('give') -- alignment of R (recipient) and T (theme) with monotransitive P.
- Ch 106 (@cite{maslova-nedjalkov-2013}): Reciprocal constructions and their relationship to reflexives.
- Ch 107 (@cite{siewierska-2013}): Passive constructions -- presence/absence.
- Ch 108 (@cite{polinsky-2013-antipassive}): Antipassive constructions.
- Ch 109 (@cite{polinsky-2013-applicative}): Applicative constructions.
- Ch 110 (@cite{song-2013-periphrastic}): Periphrastic causative constructions.
- Ch 111 (@cite{song-2013-nonperiphrastic}): Nonperiphrastic causative constructions (morphological vs compound).
Mirrors the Linglib/Typology/{Possession,Negation,Comparison,Coordination, Modality,Gender,Alignment} substrate-extension pattern. Fragment-importable.
What lives here #
ReciprocalType(4-way),RecipStrategy(7-way),RecipValency(2-way),RecipFormation(2-way) reciprocal classifications.PassivePresence(Ch 107).AntipassiveType+AntipassiveProductivity(Ch 108).DitransitiveType(Ch 105).ApplicativeBase×AppliedObjectRole×ApplicativeType(Ch 109).PeriphrasticCausativeType(Ch 110),NonperiphrCausativeType(Ch 111).ValenceProfileper-language struct (Ch 106--109 + Ch 111).AlignmentTypeabbreviation pointing atCore.AlignmentFamily(the accusative/ergative dichotomy used for the antipassive correlation; the richer 5-way typology lives inTypology.Alignment.AlignmentType).- WALS converters
fromWALS{105A,106A,108A,109A,109B,111A}. - WALS aggregate sample-size + corpus-only theorems.
Theory-laden caveats #
RecipStrategy.isNominalfollows König & Kokutani (2006)'s primary typological distinction; clitics are classified non-nominal because their valence behavior is verbal (e.g. French/Czechsereduces valence).RecipFormation.allowsDiscontinuousencodes Siloni 2008/2012's empirical prediction: only lexically-formed reciprocals license discontinuous ("John kissed with Mary") forms.
Out of scope #
The 19-language ValenceProfile sample, cross-chapter correlations,
the 47-language antipassive-alignment table (@cite{polinsky-2013-antipassive}
Table 1), and Fragment-bridge theorems live in
Phenomena/ArgumentStructure/Studies/Polinsky2013.lean.
Pylkkänen's structural Appl typology and its WALS divergence are in
Phenomena/ArgumentStructure/Studies/Pylkkanen2008.lean. Nordlinger's
extended reciprocal apparatus (RecipProfile, strategy/valency
correlations) is in Phenomena/ArgumentStructure/Studies/Nordlinger2023.lean.
WALS Ch 106: How reciprocal situations are encoded relative to reflexives.
The four values follow @cite{maslova-nedjalkov-2013}'s classification:
noDedicated: "There are no non-iconic reciprocal constructions" -- the language lacks a dedicated grammatical reciprocal marker.distinctFromReflexive: "All reciprocal constructions are formally distinct from reflexive constructions" (e.g. English "each other" vs "themselves").mixed: "There are both reflexive and non-reflexive reciprocal constructions" -- the language has both a reflexive-identical strategy and a formally distinct one (e.g. German "sich" + "einander"). Common in Europe.identicalToReflexive: "The reciprocal and reflexive constructions are formally identical" (e.g. Imbabura Quechua "-ri", West Greenlandic "-ssin-").
- noDedicated : ReciprocalType
- distinctFromReflexive : ReciprocalType
- mixed : ReciprocalType
- identicalToReflexive : ReciprocalType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqReciprocalType x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Morphosyntactic strategy for encoding reciprocity.
@cite{nordlinger-2023} summarizes the structural typologies of König & Kokutani (2006), Nedjalkov (2007a), and Evans (2008), which classify reciprocal constructions by the morphosyntactic locus of the reciprocal marking:
bipartiteNP: Bipartite quantifier NP -- English "each other", Icelandic "hvor...annad" (two independently inflected parts).recipPronoun: Reciprocal pronoun -- Russian "drug druga", Hausa "jùnan-mù". Free-standing pronominal form in object position.recipClitic: Reciprocal clitic -- French/Czech "se", Wambaya "-ngg-" (RR morpheme in auxiliary). Intermediate between pronoun and affix; functionally verbal (valence-reducing in most cases, though Wambaya retains bivalent syntax via ergative case).verbalAffix: Morphological marking on the verb -- Swahili "-ana", Hungarian "-oz-", Chicheŵa "-an-". Derives an intransitive (monovalent) verb from a transitive base.verbalAuxiliary: Reciprocal auxiliary -- Warrwa "wanji-" replaces the regular transitive auxiliary.lexical: Inherently reciprocal predicate -- English "quarrel", "meet". The symmetric meaning is part of the verb's lexical semantics.compoundVerb: Compound verb -- Mandarin "dǎ-lái-dǎ-qù" (beat-come-beat-go = 'beat each other').
- bipartiteNP : RecipStrategy
- recipPronoun : RecipStrategy
- recipClitic : RecipStrategy
- verbalAffix : RecipStrategy
- verbalAuxiliary : RecipStrategy
- lexical : RecipStrategy
- compoundVerb : RecipStrategy
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqRecipStrategy x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Whether the strategy marks the NP/argument position (nominal strategy) or the verb/predicate (verbal strategy). König & Kokutani (2006)'s primary typological distinction.
Clitics are classified as non-nominal: Evans (2008) treats them as intermediate, but their valence behavior is typically verbal -- French/Czech "se" reduces valence (monovalent), and even Wambaya "-ngg-" is morphologically bound to the auxiliary.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.bipartiteNP.isNominal = true
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.recipPronoun.isNominal = true
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.recipClitic.isNominal = false
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.verbalAffix.isNominal = false
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.verbalAuxiliary.isNominal = false
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.lexical.isNominal = false
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.RecipStrategy.compoundVerb.isNominal = false
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Valency effect of reciprocal construction on the base predicate.
Maslova (2008) distinguishes "unary" and "binary" reciprocals; @cite{nordlinger-2023} discusses how NP/argument strategies tend to preserve valency while verb-marked strategies tend to reduce it. The correlation is a tendency, not absolute -- Malagasy verb-marked reciprocals retain full valency at f-structure (Hurst 2006, 2012).
- bivalent : RecipValency
- monovalent : RecipValency
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqRecipValency x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Where reciprocal verbs are formed, per Siloni (2008, 2012).
@cite{nordlinger-2023} discusses Siloni's distinction:
lexical: formed in the lexicon through "bundling" -- two thematic roles (agent, patient) merge into a single complex role. Produces verbs with inherently symmetric semantics. Can license discontinuous reciprocal constructions (subject + comitative argument).syntactic: formed in the syntax via an operation that creates the symmetric reading. Cannot license discontinuous reciprocals.
Key empirical prediction: discontinuous reciprocals ("John kissed with Mary") are possible only with lexically-formed reciprocal verbs.
- lexical : RecipFormation
- syntactic : RecipFormation
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqRecipFormation x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Can the reciprocal construction appear in discontinuous form (reciprocants split across subject and comitative argument)? @cite{nordlinger-2023} §3.3.
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WALS Ch 107: Whether a language has passive constructions.
Siewierska defines a passive as having five properties: (i) contrasts
with active, (ii) active subject demoted or suppressed, (iii) active
object promoted to subject (if personal passive), (iv) pragmatically
restricted, (v) special verbal morphology. Includes both personal and
impersonal passives, both synthetic (Swahili -w-) and periphrastic
(English "be + past participle", Polish zostac + participle).
present: The language has at least one passive construction.absent: No passive construction (agent demotion achieved by other means: subject omission, impersonal pronoun, 3pl verb form, etc.).
- present : PassivePresence
- absent : PassivePresence
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqPassivePresence x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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WALS Ch 108: Antipassive construction type.
An antipassive is a derived detransitivized construction: the patient-like argument is either suppressed or demoted to an oblique. The term indicates the mirror image of the passive: in the passive the agent is demoted, in the antipassive the patient.
implicitPatient: Patient-like argument left implicit (unexpressed).obliquePatient: Patient-like argument expressed as oblique complement (e.g. Chukchi instrumentalkimitw-ein antipassive vs absolutivekimitw-xnin transitive).noAntipassive: No antipassive construction.
- implicitPatient : AntipassiveType
- obliquePatient : AntipassiveType
- noAntipassive : AntipassiveType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqAntipassiveType x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Does this value represent the presence of an antipassive?
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WALS Ch 108 inset map: Productivity of the antipassive.
productive: Antipassive applies to a wide range of transitive verbs.partiallyProductive: Restricted to certain subsets of transitives.notProductive: Very limited (lexically specified).
- productive : AntipassiveProductivity
- partiallyProductive : AntipassiveProductivity
- notProductive : AntipassiveProductivity
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqAntipassiveProductivity x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Morphological alignment system (simplified for antipassive correlation).
The canonical accusative/ergative dichotomy lives in Core.AlignmentFamily;
this file uses that type directly rather than re-declaring it. A richer
typology (active-stative, tripartite, hierarchical, etc.) is available in
Typology.Alignment.AlignmentType.
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WALS Ch 105: How ditransitive verbs (prototypically 'give') encode the recipient (R) and theme (T) arguments relative to the monotransitive patient (P).
indirectObject: R is treated differently from P (R gets a preposition or dative case: "give the book TO Mary").doubleObject: R is treated the same as P (both bare NPs: "give Mary the book").secondaryObject: T is treated differently from P (T gets special marking: Ainu, Lakhota).mixed: More than one construction type is available.
- indirectObject : DitransitiveType
- doubleObject : DitransitiveType
- secondaryObject : DitransitiveType
- mixed : DitransitiveType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqDitransitiveType x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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WALS Ch 109: Transitivity of the base verb for applicative formation.
bothBases: Applicatives formed from both transitive and intransitive bases (most common pattern when applicatives exist).transitiveOnly: Only from transitive bases.intransitiveOnly: Only from intransitive bases (rare: Fijian, Wambaya).
- bothBases : ApplicativeBase
- transitiveOnly : ApplicativeBase
- intransitiveOnly : ApplicativeBase
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqApplicativeBase x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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WALS Ch 109: Semantic role of the applied object.
benefactiveOnly: Applied object restricted to benefactive role.benefactiveAndOther: Benefactive plus instrument, locative, etc.nonbenefactiveOnly: No benefactive; only instrument, locative, etc.
- benefactiveOnly : AppliedObjectRole
- benefactiveAndOther : AppliedObjectRole
- nonbenefactiveOnly : AppliedObjectRole
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqAppliedObjectRole x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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WALS Ch 109: Full applicative type combining base and role.
none for languages without applicative constructions.
- applicative (base : ApplicativeBase) (role : AppliedObjectRole) : ApplicativeType
- noApplicative : ApplicativeType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqApplicativeType.decEq Typology.ArgumentStructure.ApplicativeType.noApplicative Typology.ArgumentStructure.ApplicativeType.noApplicative = isTrue ⋯
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Does this value represent the presence of an applicative?
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WALS Ch 110: Periphrastic causative type.
- sequentialOnly : PeriphrasticCausativeType
- purposiveOnly : PeriphrasticCausativeType
- both : PeriphrasticCausativeType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqPeriphrasticCausativeType x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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WALS Ch 111: Nonperiphrastic (morphological/compound) causative type.
- neither : NonperiphrCausativeType
- morphologicalOnly : NonperiphrCausativeType
- compoundOnly : NonperiphrCausativeType
- both : NonperiphrCausativeType
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.instDecidableEqNonperiphrCausativeType x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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Does this value represent a morphological causative?
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A cross-linguistic valence/voice profile for a single language.
Covers WALS Ch 106--109 directly, plus Ch 111 causative morphology for the applicative-causative correlation. Ch 110 (periphrastic causatives) is omitted from profiles since most WALS sources do not report it.
- language : String
- iso : String
ISO 639-3 code
- reciprocal : ReciprocalType
Ch 106: Reciprocal construction type
- passive : PassivePresence
Ch 107: Passive presence
- antipassive : AntipassiveType
Ch 108: Antipassive type
- alignment : AlignmentType
Ch 108: Morphological alignment (relevant for antipassive correlation)
- applicative : ApplicativeType
Ch 109: Applicative type
- causative : NonperiphrCausativeType
Ch 111: Nonperiphrastic causative type
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Whether the profile records a passive.
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Convert WALS 105A value to DitransitiveType.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS105A Data.WALS.F105A.DitransitiveConstructionsTheVerbGive.indirectObjectConstruction = Typology.ArgumentStructure.DitransitiveType.indirectObject
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS105A Data.WALS.F105A.DitransitiveConstructionsTheVerbGive.doubleObjectConstruction = Typology.ArgumentStructure.DitransitiveType.doubleObject
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS105A Data.WALS.F105A.DitransitiveConstructionsTheVerbGive.secondaryObjectConstruction = Typology.ArgumentStructure.DitransitiveType.secondaryObject
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS105A Data.WALS.F105A.DitransitiveConstructionsTheVerbGive.mixed = Typology.ArgumentStructure.DitransitiveType.mixed
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Convert WALS 106A value to ReciprocalType.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS106A Data.WALS.F106A.ReciprocalType.noReciprocalConstruction = Typology.ArgumentStructure.ReciprocalType.noDedicated
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS106A Data.WALS.F106A.ReciprocalType.distinctFromReflexive = Typology.ArgumentStructure.ReciprocalType.distinctFromReflexive
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS106A Data.WALS.F106A.ReciprocalType.mixed = Typology.ArgumentStructure.ReciprocalType.mixed
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS106A Data.WALS.F106A.ReciprocalType.identicalToReflexive = Typology.ArgumentStructure.ReciprocalType.identicalToReflexive
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Convert WALS 108A value to AntipassiveType.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS108A Data.WALS.F108A.AntipassiveType.implicitPatient = Typology.ArgumentStructure.AntipassiveType.implicitPatient
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS108A Data.WALS.F108A.AntipassiveType.obliquePatient = Typology.ArgumentStructure.AntipassiveType.obliquePatient
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS108A Data.WALS.F108A.AntipassiveType.noAntipassive = Typology.ArgumentStructure.AntipassiveType.noAntipassive
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Convert WALS 109A value to ApplicativeType. The WALS enum encodes
base-transitivity and semantic role together; we decompose into
ApplicativeBase × AppliedObjectRole.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109A Data.WALS.F109A.ApplicativeType.noApplicative = Typology.ArgumentStructure.ApplicativeType.noApplicative
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Convert WALS 109B value to an optional AppliedObjectRole.
Returns none for languages without applicative constructions, since
there is no applied object whose role could be classified.
Instrument, locative, and instrument-and-locative all map to
.nonbenefactiveOnly; the finer distinction is preserved in the WALS
source data.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109B Data.WALS.F109B.AppliedObjectRole.instrument = some Typology.ArgumentStructure.AppliedObjectRole.nonbenefactiveOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109B Data.WALS.F109B.AppliedObjectRole.locative = some Typology.ArgumentStructure.AppliedObjectRole.nonbenefactiveOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109B Data.WALS.F109B.AppliedObjectRole.instrumentAndLocative = some Typology.ArgumentStructure.AppliedObjectRole.nonbenefactiveOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109B Data.WALS.F109B.AppliedObjectRole.onlyBenefactive = some Typology.ArgumentStructure.AppliedObjectRole.benefactiveOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS109B Data.WALS.F109B.AppliedObjectRole.noApplicative = none
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Convert WALS 111A value to NonperiphrCausativeType.
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- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS111A Data.WALS.F111A.NonperiphrCausativeType.neither = Typology.ArgumentStructure.NonperiphrCausativeType.neither
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS111A Data.WALS.F111A.NonperiphrCausativeType.morphologicalOnly = Typology.ArgumentStructure.NonperiphrCausativeType.morphologicalOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS111A Data.WALS.F111A.NonperiphrCausativeType.compoundOnly = Typology.ArgumentStructure.NonperiphrCausativeType.compoundOnly
- Typology.ArgumentStructure.fromWALS111A Data.WALS.F111A.NonperiphrCausativeType.both = Typology.ArgumentStructure.NonperiphrCausativeType.both
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Ch 105: indirect-object alignment is the modal ditransitive pattern.
Ch 107: more than a third of WALS-sampled languages have a passive.
Ch 108: in @cite{polinsky-2013-antipassive}'s sample, more languages have oblique-patient antipassives than implicit-patient antipassives, and the majority have no antipassive at all.
Ch 111: morphological causatives appear in more than 80% of WALS-sampled languages (~90% in @cite{song-2013-nonperiphrastic}'s tally). This dwarfs periphrastic causatives in frequency.
Ch 106: @cite{nordlinger-2023} reports that of the 175 languages in @cite{maslova-nedjalkov-2013}'s sample, polysemous reflexive/reciprocal constructions are present in 60 (34%). In WALS terms, polysemy corresponds to Values 3 (mixed) and 4 (identical to reflexive).
60 out of 175 = 34.3%: more than a third but less than half.