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The Grammar of Identity
Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages
Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch zelf, Swedish själv, etc.) are used in two different functions: as ‘intensifiers’ (e.g. The president himself made the decision) and as markers of reflexivity (John criticized himself). On the basis of a comparative...
Published July 27th 2006 by Routledge