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The referential nature of the German reflexive pronoun sich in diachronic coverage

Burok Tat`yana E`dvartovna  (Docent, Don State Technical University )

Polenova Galina Tikhonovna  (Leading Research, Taganrog Institute named after A.P. Chekhov (branch) Rostov-on-Don State University of Economics (RINH))

The article deals with the German reflexive pronoun sich from the point of view of the historical change of its reference. The authors consider the German pronoun sich to be a structural element of German syntax, coreferential to the subject, an anaphora referring to the subject-agent. It is established that it functioned as an antecedent of the agent, first of all, with verbs expressing the mental state of the subject. These verbs competed in Old German with medial forms, conveying a combination of centrifugal with centripetal. The construction with a reflexive pronoun turned the transitive forms of the verb into intransitive ones, changing the reference from object to subject.

Keywords:reference, reflexive verbs, reflexive pronoun, diachrony, subject, agent, anaphora.
 

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Citation link:
Burok T. E., Polenova G. T. The referential nature of the German reflexive pronoun sich in diachronic coverage // Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ. -2022. -№07. -С. 136-140 DOI 10.37882/2223-2982.2022.07.08
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