RECIPROCAL AND SOCIATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN BAMANA 1 Valentin Vydrine European University at St. Petersburg CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview of the language; dialectology 1.2. Summary 2. Grammatical information 2.1. Tonal system 2.2. Personal pronouns 2.3. Sentence structure. 2.4. Verb classes 2.5. Valency increasing means 2.6. Valency decreasing means 2.7. Time/aspect/mood markers 3. Diathesis types of reciprocal constructions 3.1. Subject-oriented diathesis types 3.1.1. "Canonical" reciprocals 3.1.1.1. Derived from two-place transitives 3.1.1.2. Derived from two-place intransitives 3.1.2. "Dative" reciprocals 3.1.3. "Possessive" reciprocals 3.2. Object-Oriented Diathesis Types 3.2.1. Derived from three-place transitives 3.2.2. Derived from subject-oriented reciprocals by means of cautivization 3.2.2.1. Morphological causativization 3.2.2.2. Reciprocal causative constructions derived from "possessive" reciprocals 3.2.2.3. Referential conflict 3.3. Adjunct-oriented introvert type 4. Referential situations and the reciprocal 4.1. Reciprocal constructions without antecedent 4.2. Types of referential situations 4.3. Simultaneity and succession 5. Means of expressing reciprocal arguments 5.1. Formally singular antecedent for reciprocals 5.2. Heterogeneous subject 5.3. Homogeneous object 5.4. Inanimate nouns as subjects 6. The sociative 6.1. Subject-oriented sociatives 6.2. Object-oriented sociatives 6.3. Referential conflict 7. Verbs of conjuction and disjunction 8. Lexical reciprocals 8.1. Subject-oriented lexical reciprocals 8.1.1. "Canonical" reciprocals 8.1.1.1. Two-place transitives 8.1.1.2. Two-place intransitives 8.1.1.3. Intransitives with a predicative predicative complement 8.1.2. Three-place subject-oriented "dative" lexical reciprocal 8.2. Object-oriented lexical reciprocals: verbs of conjunction and disjunction 8.3. Expression of equality 9. Substantivization of the reciprocal marker 1 The author expresses his deepest gratitude to his informants, first of all to Adama Diokolo Coulibaly and Ismaël Maiga.