About structural deficiency of the clitic se (or, why a reflexive passive with si does not exist)

Abstract

The paper accounts for the contrast between semantically reflexive verbs and the reflexive verbal form in Czech - the former allowing for both clitics "se" and "si", while the latter only for "se" - on the generative assumption that the reflexive clitic is a deficient caseless element late inserted into syntax.

Keywords

• reflexive clitics
• reflexive verbs
• reflexive verbal form
• generative syntax