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ONE-ANOTHER-Reciprocal-Reference-NP Construction

Name ONE-ANOTHER-Reciprocal-Reference-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn Establishing co-reference and a reciprocal relation between two or, usually, more ‘things’, most usually two people.
Usage conditions – people must be identifiable from linguistic or extralinguistic context;
– not in SUBJ-slot of constructions with Vfin
Syntactic form one another
Agreement singular
General cxn-type RECIPROCAL-PRONOUN CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F