Reflexives and reciprocals

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Solarius
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Reflexives and reciprocals

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Does your conlang distinguish them or merge them?

In Alife, they are distinct.

In Arroe, they are merged.

What about your conlangs?
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Re: Reflexives and reciprocals

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I don't ever merge them.
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My late conlang Kådir had a reflexive prefix that expressed reflexive with the singular subjects and resiprocal with the plural subjects.
Then it had a distributive suffix that normally expressed distributive subjects, but, in company with the reflexive suffix and a plural subject, it expressed reflexive.

We love us = reciprocal
We love us separately = reflexive
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Yes. Adari posesses a dedicated reciporical marker:

"Suetu cuistot."
[1.PL-ACC know-1.PL.IN]
"We know ourselves."

"Suetu cuistot na."
[1.PL-ACC know-1.PL.IN RECIP]
"We know each other."

Interestingly, when used with two nouns, it goes in between, taking the place of "and":

"Nasixo na Emint cuistast."
("Nashicho and Emint know each other")
Nūdenku waga honji ma naku honyasi ne ika-ika ichamase!
female-appearance=despite boy-voice=PAT hold boy-youth=TOP very be.cute-3PL
Honyasi zō honyasi ma naidasu.
boy-youth=AGT boy-youth=PAT love.romantically-3S
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