PROBLÉMY VYMEDZENIA STATUSU KOMPONENTU SA V KONŠTRUKCIÁCH TYPU UMÝVAŤ SA A VIDIEŤ SA

We try to answer the question: When does the reflexive marker “sa” accompanying a verb present the clitic form of the pronoun “seba”? Linguists do not share a common view whether the Czech and Slovak constructions “verb + reflexive marker sa”, both in the type “umývať sa”, and in “vidieť sa/hodnotiť sa”, are to be considered as demonstrations of syntactic reflexivity (syntactic constructions with a reflexive pronoun), lexical reflexivity (reflexive verbs with derivative morpheme), or whether they are of the same nature at all. Considering the results of a modified commutation test (possibility/impossibility to substitute the reflexive “sa” marker by a pronominal expression “sám seba”), we came to the conclusion that the expressions within the type “vnímať sa” represent syntactic constructions (predicate + object) where the respective “sa” marker (object) has a pronominal status.