<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this paper, we draw attention to reciprocity in Czech light verb constructions – a language phenomenon, which has not been discussed yet. Reciprocity is contributed to light verb constructions by predictive nouns, as they are the nouns that represent the semantic core of these constructions. Here we focus on reciprocal light verb constructions derived by the syntactic operation of reciprocalization. We show that the complex mapping of semantic participants onto valency complementations, characteristic of reciprocalization, is reflected in reciprocal light verb constructions in the same way as in reciprocal nominal constructions. The main difference between reciprocal nominal constructions and reciprocal light verb constructions lies in the morphosyntactic expression of reciprocalized participants. We demonstrate that surface syntactic changes in reciprocal light verb constructions are regular enough to be described on the rule basis: the rule based generation of reciprocal light verb constructions requires a cooperation of two sets of rules – rules for deep and surface syntactic structure formation of light verb constructions and rules for capturing reciprocity.</p></abstract>

In this paper, we draw attention to reciprocity in Czech light verb constructions – a language phenomenon, which has not been discussed yet. Reciprocity is contributed to light verb constructions by predictive nouns, as they are the nouns that represent the semantic core of these constructions. Here we focus on reciprocal light verb constructions derived by the syntactic operation of reciprocalization. We show that the complex mapping of semantic participants onto valency complementations, characteristic of reciprocalization, is reflected in reciprocal light verb constructions in the same way as in reciprocal nominal constructions. The main difference between reciprocal nominal constructions and reciprocal light verb constructions lies in the morphosyntactic expression of reciprocalized participants. We demonstrate that surface syntactic changes in reciprocal light verb constructions are regular enough to be described on the rule basis: the rule based generation of reciprocal light verb constructions requires a cooperation of two sets of rules – rules for deep and surface syntactic structure formation of light verb constructions and rules for capturing reciprocity.

Reciprocity in Czech Light Verb Constructions: The Dependency Perspective

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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In this paper, we draw attention to reciprocity in Czech light verb constructions – a language phenomenon, which has not been discussed yet. Reciprocity is...

Reciprocity in Czech Light Verb Constructions: The Dependency Perspective

Published Online: Oct 11, 2020

Page range: 41 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2020-0011

Keywords
syntactic operation of reciprocalization, reciprocity of nouns, syntactic structure formation of light verb constructions

© 2020 Václava Kettnerová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Reciprocity in Czech Light Verb Constructions: The Dependency Perspective

Published Online: Oct 11, 2020

Page range: 41 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2020-0011

Keywordssyntactic operation of reciprocalization, reciprocity of nouns, syntactic structure formation of light verb constructions

© 2020 Václava Kettnerová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
syntactic operation of reciprocalization, reciprocity of nouns, syntactic structure formation of light verb constructions