The Logic of Reciprocity Revisited: On the Interpretations of a Reciprocal Construction in Taiwanese

This paper studies the semantic properties of a reciprocal construction in Taiwanese. Specific focus is on the real-world situations that this reciprocal construction may encode. First, the syntactic properties of the reciprocal construction "xiou " -V in Taiwanese, which are different from these in English, are analyzed. Next, various reciprocal situations are discussed and compared with those of English examples. In addition, general schema reciprocals proposed by Langendoen (1978) are reviewed. A new schema, based on Oehrle's Austinian pluralities, is proposed to accommodate all types of reciprocal situations. (JL) i4A-* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * 1--U.S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Often of Ethfcal,onal Rosno fch and lofprovionlonl EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION 1 \lir CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the parson or organization originating a 0 Mtnor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessanty represent official OERI position cc policy. TV, "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY