Reflexive constructions in Luganda

This chapter describes the reflexive construction in Luganda, a Great Lakes Bantu
language spoken in Uganda. The reflexive construction in Luganda is formed with
the invariable reflexivizer ee-, a verbal prefix immediately preceding the stem,
which can be reconstructed to Proto-Bantu. There are no reflexive pronouns in
Luganda. The prefix is obligatorily used to express coreference between the
subject and the patient object in transitive verbs and there is no difference between
introverted and extroverted verbs. The reflexivizer is also employed in case of
coreference between an applied beneficiary and the subject. Apart from morphologically
and semantically transparent reflexive constructions, Luganda also has a
considerable number of fossilized reflexive verbs.