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Reflexivity (grammar)

In grammar, reflexivity is a property of syntactic constructs whereby two arguments of an action or relation expressed by a single predicate have the same reference.

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In grammar, reflexivity is a property of syntactic constructs whereby two arguments (actual or implicit) of an action or relation expressed by a single predicate have the same reference.1

Reflexivity may be expressed by means of reflexive pronouns or reflexive verbs. The latter ones may be constructed with the help of reflexive affixes (e.g., in Russian) or reflective particles (e.g., in Polish).

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  1. Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics By Hadumod Bussmann, Gregory Trauth, Kertin Kazzazi "Reflexivity