Dekauzativni i autokauzativni recipročni predikati u srpskom i italijanskom jeziku

This paper deals with predicates that participate in the causative alternation, while also having a reciprocal meaning (in Serbian: Slikar je izmešao plavu i žutu boju ‘The painter mixed blue and yellow’ – Plava i žuta boja su se izmešale ‘Blue and yellow mixed’ – Plava boja se izmešala sa žutom ‘Blue mixed with yellow’). The emphasis is placed on their intransitive, i.e. decausative variant, marked by the presence of a reflexive clitic in both Serbian and Italian. We single out the properties of these predicates that derive from their decausative status, as well as those resulting from reciprocity. Special attention is given to a subgroup of predicates having animate participants (udružiti se ‘join forces’, ujediniti se ‘unite’, and similar), and it is concluded that, when they express a volitional action, these predicates are better described as autocausative. Lastly, an analysis of Italian decausative and autocausative predicates is reported that points to a new dimension in the link between reciprocal and reflexive predicates.