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  2. Reflexive verb - Wikipedia

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    Reflexive verbs can have a variety of uses and meanings, which often escape consistent classification. Some language-common identified uses are outlined below. [4] For example, Davies et al. [2] identify 12 uses for Spanish reflexive constructions, while Vinogradov [5] divides Russian reflexive verbs into as many as 16 groups.

  3. Reflexive - Wikipedia

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    Reflexive relation, a relation where elements of a set are self-related; Reflexive user interface, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited; Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it; Reflexive space, a subset of Banach spaces

  4. Reflexivity (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Reflexive verbs - Wikipedia

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  6. Reciprocal construction - Wikipedia

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    Most Indo-European languages do not have special reciprocal affixes on verbs, and mutual relations are expressed through reflexive constructions or other mechanisms. For example, Russian reciprocal constructions have the suffix -sja (-ся, 'self'), which also has reflexive and passive interpretations.

  7. Reflexive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Here the verb uses the second person plural indefinite ending -tok indicating that the object of the verb is unclear or non-existent. (ti) magatokat mossátok (you (pl.) are washing yourselves [informal]) Here the verb has changed from the second person plural indefinite ending to the definite ending -játok to indicate the reflexive object.

  8. Autocausative verb - Wikipedia

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    Autocausative refers to a type of reflexive that denotes "in an overwhelming majority of cases, change of location or motion which the (human) referent causes by his own activity." [1] In this kind of event, "the mind or will of an animate entity initiates some movement of their own body [...] or a part thereof."

  9. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    This need not be reflexive, as in "My clothes soaked in detergent overnight.". In English, it is impossible to tell from the morphology whether the verb in Sentence (8) is an active voice unaccusative verb or a middle voice anticausative verb with active morphology. [10]