The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages by Volker Gast

The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages

Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

Volker Gast

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English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch zelf, Swedish sj lv, etc.) are used in two different functions: as 'intensifiers' (e.g. The president himself made the decision) and as markers of reflexivity (John cr...

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