Are You the Type of Person Who Likes Other People? Extended Uses of the Reciprocal Particle ‐an in Kinyarwanda
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Abstract
In linguistics, making a verb reciprocal means that one person does something to another person and that the other person does the same thing to the first person. Thus "John and Mary like each other" implies that "John likes Mary" and "Mary likes John." In most languages, one can only make a verb reciprocal when its subject is plural, so that "John and Mary like each other" is fine, but *"John likes each other" does not make sense. In Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language spoken in Rwanda, the reciprocal is indicated by the suffix ‐an on the verb, for example, Habimana na Mariya barakundana "Habimana and Maria like each other." However, the equivalent sentence with a singular subject, Habimana arakundana, does not have the nonsense interpretation *"Habimana likes each other" but rather the more intelligible "Habimana is the type of person who likes other people." Based on this rather unusual finding from field work with a native speaker of Kinyarwanda, this presentation explores the suffix ‐an in terms of the types of sentences in which it can and cannot appear in an attempt to generalize how it is used, the range of its meaning, and its possible relation with the preposition na "with."
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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