Is suïcidar-se a reflexive verb or an essentially pronominal verb? Authors Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà Universitat de Girona DOI: 10.2436/20.2500.01.385 Keywords: suïcidar-se, history of suicide, pronominal verbs, reflexive verbs Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyse the properties of the verb suïcidar-se ‘to commit suicide’ through a grammatical and historical description of its origin and evolution in four Romance languages that have adopted this neologism: Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian. This historical analysis will allow us to propose a hypothesis that explains its unique formation process and help us understand why this verb can only be described grammatically as a verb that is both pronominal and reflexive because it is modelled semantically on the synonymous verb matar-se ‘to kill oneself’. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2024-02-12 Issue Vol. 46 (2024) Section Articles License Aquesta obra és subjecta —llevat que s'indiqui el contrari en el text, en les fotografies o en altres il·lustracions— a una llicència Reconeixement - No comercial - Sense obres derivades 3.0 Espanya de Creative Commons, el text complet de la qual es pot consultar a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.ca. Així, doncs, s'autoritza al públic en general a reproduir, distribuir i comunicar l'obra sempre que se'n reconegui l'autoria i l'entitat que la publica i no se'n faci un ús comercial ni cap obra derivada.
