The reflexive in Kalenjin: Its syntactic status and semantic functions
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2024
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Zwarts, Joost
Chelimo, Andrew
Jerono, Prisca
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Huang, Yaqian
Hagen Kaldhol , Nina
Lim, Jun Jie
Rose, Sharon
Struthers-Young, Anthony
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Kalenjin kee(y) is typically treated as an arity-reducing verbal suffix with reflexive (and reciprocal) meaning. However, we show that it is actually a separate word with a typologically unusual combination of two functions: it can be the object of a verb or preposition (contributing an arity-reducing ‘middle’ meaning that is broader than just reflexive and reciprocal) or it can modify pronouns (with an intensifying meaning).
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Zwarts, J, Chelimo, A & Jerono, P 2024, The reflexive in Kalenjin : Its syntactic status and semantic functions. in Y Huang, N Hagen Kaldhol , J J Lim, S Rose & A Struthers-Young (eds), ACAL in SoCAL : Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contemporary African Linguistics, Language Science Press, Berlin, pp. 539-556. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11210482