Revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, from Complutense University of Madrid in July 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Languages and Texts -- Some Observations Regarding the Cited Vedic Examples -- Introduction -- Theoretical Bases and Problematic Issues Regarding Reflexivity -- The Vedic Language and Its Texts -- Middle Voice -- SVÁ- and SVAYÁM -- TANŪ- -- ĀTMÁN- and TMÁN- -- Final Observations -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index of Cited Texts.

Reflexivity in Vedic offers a corpus-based synchronic and diachronic analysis of reflexivity in the language of the R̥gveda and Atharvaveda , two of the most ancient corpora ever composed in an Indo-European language. Applying a functional and cognitivist framework, Verónica Orqueda discusses the different possible strategies and proposes a distribution determined by the interaction between reflexivity, transitivity and valency. This study enriches typological approaches to the emergence of reflexives and therefore, on the basis of the Vedic data, it shows that nominal reflexive strategies may especially arise in contexts of underspecified verbal valency.