Abstract
Reflexives, encoding a variety of meanings, pose a great challenge for both theoretical and lexicographic description. As they are associated with changes in morphosyntactic properties of verbs, their description is highly relevant for verb valency.
In Czech, reflexives function as the reflexive personal pronoun and as verbal affixes. In this paper, we address those language phenomena that are encoded by the reflexive personal pronoun, i.e., reflexivity and reciprocity.
We introduce the lexicographic representation of these two language phenomena in the VALLEX lexicon, a valency lexicon of Czech verbs, accounting for the role of the reflexives with respect to the valency structure of verbs. This representation makes use of the division of the lexicon into a data component and a grammar component.
It takes into account that reflexivity and reciprocity are conditioned by the semantic properties of verbs on the one hand and that morphosyntactic changes brought about by these phenomena are systemic on the