An Interplay between Valency Information and Reflexivity

A language description based on a formally defined framework has many advantages: The possibility to check the inner consistency of the model as well as the possibility of comparison with other models or with pure descriptive approaches belong to its main priorities. Roland Wagner’s contribution published in the last issue of this journal – focusing (among other ideas) on the role of Czech reflexives – presents several critical remarks concerning the Functional Generative Description. These remarks represent a good challenge for the authors developing this model to fill empirical gaps and to make clear some theoretical presuppositions concerning valency frames of verbs and their respective reflexive counterparts that are primarily addressed by Roland Wagner’s critical survey.