50. Comments

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In view of the breathtaking scope of the comparative research enterprise led by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov whose results are published in these volumes, I have no choice but to select and highlight a few topics that I find particularly interesting and worthy of further comment and further study.I will focus here on conceptual and terminological issues and on some phenomena that have been discussed in the literature but are not so well represented in this work.I will also try to summarize some of the major known generalizations about reciprocals, as discussed in this work and elsewhere, in the form of twenty-six Greenberg-style numbered universals.Chapter 50 Further remarks on reciprocal constructions  . Major ways of expressing mutual configurationsMutual configurations can be expressed explicitly, as in all the examples seen so far, but they can also be left implicit, as in ( 5) and ( 6).(5) a. Hector and Achilles fought obsessively.b.Lisi and Aisha are in love.(6) To'aba'ita (Lichtenberk, Ch. 36, p. 1554) Kero 3du.fact musu-a kiss-3.objbabali-daro'a.cheek-3du.poss'The two of them kissed them/themselves/each other on the cheek.' (Lit.'. . .kissed their cheeks.')

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