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expl:poss: possessively used reflexive clitic

A dative reflexive clitic can in certain contexts mean possession of the direct object by the subject of the clause. The construction is comparable to the middle voice of old Indo-European languages such as Ancient Greek. We attach the dative clitic to the main verb using the relation expl:poss.

“A client with severe arthritis broke her hip.”


expl:poss in other languages: [it] [ro]
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