Abstract
This chapter gives an overview of reflexive constructions in the Papuan language Nungon of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Nungon has two types of free personal pronouns: a "basic" set and an "emphatic" set. The emphatic set includes more formal person/number distinctions than the basic set, and is used for various pragmatic effects relating to contrast and focus, as well as for the reflexive relationship between a transitive subject and object, when they are obligatory. Nungon has no formal marking for reflexive relationships beyond transitive subject/object coreference, however, with interpretation of reflexivity largely context-dependent for subject/oblique coreference and other coreferential combinations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Reflexive Constructions in the World's Languages |
| Editors | Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu, Martin Haspelmath |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Language Science Press |
| Chapter | 16 |
| Pages | 447-463 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783961104116 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783985540693 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2023 |