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A [[construction]] with at least two [[participant]]s A and B is called '''reciprocal construction''' if the [[semantics|semantic]] relation between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A, and if a special construction is used to denote such a situation.

::*''“Reciprocal constructions are grammatical means for the expression of symmetrical relations for any n-ary predicate and for at least one set of arguments A, with |A| > or = 2; it is a typical feature of such constructions that one of the arguments denotes a set A as specified above and that the basic argument structure of the relevant predicate is reduced or changed in such a way that not all argument positions are filled by referential expressions.”'' (König & Kokutani 2006:272-273)

===Origin===
The term ''reciprocal'' (ultimately going back to [[Latin]] ''reciprocus'' ‘returning on the same path’) was originally used for ‘reflexive’ and ‘reciprocal’ interchangeably. The [[OED]]’s first attestation in a modern sense is from the 18th century.

===See also===
*[[reciprocal pronoun]]

===Reference===
*König, Ekkehard & Kokutani, Shigehiro. 2006. Towards a typology of reciprocal constructions: focus on German and Japanese. ''Linguistics'' 44(2).271-302.

===Other languages===
German [[Reziprok-Konstruktion]] Portuguese [[construção recíproca]]

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−	A [[construction]] with at least two [[participant]]s A and B is called '''reciprocal construction''' if the [[semantics\|semantic]] relation between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A, and if a special construction is used to denote such a situation.	+	A [[construction]] with at least two [[participant]]s A and B is called '''reciprocal construction''' if the [[semantics\|semantic]] relation between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A, and if a special construction is used to denote such a situation. A reciprocal construction is also said to express a [[reciprocal event]].

	::*''“Reciprocal constructions are grammatical means for the expression of symmetrical relations for any n-ary predicate and for at least one set of arguments A, with \|A\| > or = 2; it is a typical feature of such constructions that one of the arguments denotes a set A as specified above and that the basic argument structure of the relevant predicate is reduced or changed in such a way that not all argument positions are filled by referential expressions.”'' (König & Kokutani 2006:272-273)		::*''“Reciprocal constructions are grammatical means for the expression of symmetrical relations for any n-ary predicate and for at least one set of arguments A, with \|A\| > or = 2; it is a typical feature of such constructions that one of the arguments denotes a set A as specified above and that the basic argument structure of the relevant predicate is reduced or changed in such a way that not all argument positions are filled by referential expressions.”'' (König & Kokutani 2006:272-273)

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