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Concepts of reciprocity and their encoding in the languages of the world| old_uid | 2474 |
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| title | Concepts of reciprocity and their encoding in the languages of the world |
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| start_date | 2007/03/20 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Reciprocity lies at the root social organization and has preoccupied
scholars of many disciplines. In this paper I will discuss various concepts
of reciprocity developed in such fields as biology, ethnology, philosophy
and sociology and relate them to semantic distinctions drawn within
linguistic analyses of reciprocal constructions. Furthermore an overview of the typologies recently developed for such constructions by Nedjalkov (to appear), Evans (2007) and König & Kokutani (2006) will be given. It will be shown that these typologies are much more complex than the surprisingly robust one developed by Faltz (1985) for the neighbouring domain of reflexivity. I will discuss some plausible reasons for this additional complexity as well as some recent attempts at developing a semantic analysis for various reciprocal constructions that takes the observable formal variation seriously. |
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