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Journal of Semantics 2007 24(3):255-288; doi:10.1093/jos/ffm004
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The Ingredients of Reciprocity in Cuzco Quechua

Martina Faller

The University of Manchester

Correspondence: School of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures The University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom e-mail: martina.faller{at}manchester.ac.uk


  Abstract

In Cuzco Quechua, reciprocity is marked by means of two verbal suffixes, one of which is a marker of reflexivity, the other of which is a marker of pluractionality. The paper develops an analysis that composes reciprocity from these more basic notions. Two further ingredients that are needed will be argued to derive from independent principles: universal quantification over parts of the reciprocal plural agent derives from plural predication, as has been argued by other researchers for English reciprocity, and distinctness of the participants in the reciprocal subevents derives from a semantic version of Condition B. This way of composing reciprocity is not universal, and other languages have dedicated reciprocal markers or make other reciprocal ingredients overt. The compositional derivation of reciprocity is therefore a clear candidate for cross-linguistic semantic variation.

Received for publication 4 December 2006. Revision received 28 February 2007. Accepted for publication 15 March 2007.


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