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Reflexive Verbs in a Valency Lexicon: The Case of Czech Reflexive Morphemes

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2014

Abstract

Thi paper deals with Czech reflexive verbs from the lexicographic point of view. We show that the Czech reflexive morphemes se/si constitute different linguistic meanings: either they are formal means of the word formation process of the so called reflexivization, or they are associated with the syntactic phenomena of reflexivity, reciprocity, and diatheses.

All of these processes are associated with changes in the valency structure of verbs. We formulate a proposal for their lexicographic representation for the valency lexicon of Czech verbs, VALLEX.