A new look at possessive reflexivization: A comparative study between Czech and Russian

Anna Nedoluzhko


Abstract
The paper presents a contrastive description of reflexive possessive pronouns “svůj” in Czech and “svoj” in Russian. The research concerns syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects. With our analysis, we shed a new light on the already investigated issue, which comes from a detailed comparison of the phenomenon of possessive reflexivization in two typologically and genetically similar languages. We show that whereas in Czech, the possessive reflexivization is mostly limited to syntactic functions and does not go beyond the grammar, in Russian it gets additional semantic meanings and moves substan-tially towards the lexicon. The obtained knowledge allows us to explain heretofore unclear marginal uses of reflexives in each language.
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W16-3814
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Eva Hajičová, Igor Boguslavsky
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GramLex
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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110–119
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Anna Nedoluzhko. 2016. A new look at possessive reflexivization: A comparative study between Czech and Russian. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex), pages 110–119, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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