SLE Workshop “A comprehensive perspective on reflexive constructions” (2019)

Workshop held at the SLE Annual Meeting, Leipzig, August 21-24, 2019, and organized by Katarzyna Janic and Nicoletta Puddu

Workshop programme and related general session papers:

Thursday 22 August 2019 – GENERAL SESSION

11.30-11.55     Susana Afonso and Augusto Soares da Silva The null reflexive construction in Brazilian Portuguese

12.00-12.25     Svetlana Toldova Dedicated possessive reflexives in languages with head marking of a  possessor

THURSDAY 22 August 2019 – WORKSHOP

14.00-14.25     WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION (by Katarzyna Janic and Nicoletta Puddu)

14.30-14.55     Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Amos Atuhairwe and Erika Just: Reflexives in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)

15.00-15.25     Maria Khachaturyan and Anna Volkova Reflexive systems in contact and the acquisition of binding: the case of Mano and Kpelle

16.00-16.25     Anna Volkova Reflexivity in Khanty

16.30-16.55     Denis Creissels The reflexive pronoun ži in Northern Akhvakh: A corpus-based study

FRIDAY 23 August 2019 WORKSHOP

9.00-9.25         Sebastian Dom and Leonid Kulikov Bantu reflexives: A comparative case-study of the Kikongo Language Cluster

9.30-9.55         Lengson Ngwasi The semantics of verbal reflexives in Kihehe

11.30-11.55     Guglielmo Inglese The emergence of reflexive markers: the case of Hittite

12.00-12.25     Verónica Orqueda Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European reflexive function within an active alignment system

14.00-14.25     Anne Wolfsgruber and Iker Salaberri Reflexive constructions and areal relationships: A typological-diachronic analysis of replica grammaticalization

14.30-14.55     Martin Everaert and Kārumūri V. Subbārāo Doubling as a reflexivization strategy

15.00-15.25     Zygmunt Frajzyngier ‘Reflexives’ coding point of view: The motivation for the emergence of a function

16.00-16.25     Eric Reuland, Bambang Kartono, Sally Wong and Martin Everaert Representing Reflexivity

16.30-16.55     Martin Haspelmath Comparative concepts for reflexive constructions as a basis for testable universal claims

17.00-17.25     GENERAL WORKSHOP DISCUSSION

Saturday 24 August 2019General session

11.00-11.25     Václava Kettnerová and Markéta Lopatková The role of the reflexives in valency: Evidence from Czech 

11.30-11.55     Paola Fritz-Huechante and Antonio Machicao y Priemer Reflexivizing Spanish psych-verbs: Ambiguities across classes 

12.00-12.25     Thi Quy Ngoc Doan Vietnamese Reflexivity -mình ‘body’ and tự ‘self’ -two elements and their interaction 

12.30-12.55     Yakov Testelets The Thirteen (or More) Reflexive Pronouns in Khwarshi

Download all the abstracts here

(Related overview paper: Martin Haspelmath: Comparing reflexive constructions in the world’s languages)