ABSTRACT
The central question of this study, raised in Chapter 1, is the following: why do SELFforms function both as intensifiers and as reflexive markers? In Chapters 3 and 6, it was claimed that intensifiers can be analysed as expressions of an identity function. In this chapter, it will be argued that SELF-forms with a reflexivizing function can likewise be analysed as denoting the identity function ID. This explains the polyfunctionality of SELF.
