ABSTRACT
The present study deals with intensifiers or emphatic reflexives as exemplified by the self-forms (myself, yourself, himself,¼) in the data below: https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
(1.1)
Nevertheless it was the King's ministers, the argument ran, who should be held accountable for the misdeeds of the Crown, not the King himself. [BNC]
(1.2)
Thirty years ago Rutherford said, ‘it is my personal conviction that if we knew more about the nucleus, we should find it much simpler than we suppose. I am always a believer in simplicity being a simple fellow myself.’ [LOB]
(1.3)
When those arrested threatened the lord mayor that they would inform the King how they were dealt with, he defiantly replied that he would save them the trouble and do it himself. [BNC]
