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In describing reflexive relationships (relationships between some entity and itself), languages can follow different strategies (cf. Faltz 1977). In the nominal strategy, one of the term positions of a predicate-frame is filled with a nominal or pronominal constituent which explicitly indicates referential identity with some other term in the predication.
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Dik, S.C. (1983). On the Status of Verbal Reflexives. In: Tasmowski, L., Willems, D. (eds) Problems in Syntax. Studies in Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2727-1_10
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