Present-Day English is unique among the Germanic languages in
employing the same forms (himself, herself etc.) both as reflexive
pronoun and intensifier. While a lot of attention has been directed
at the grammaticalization of the compound reflexive, the emergence
of the compound intensifier has remained largely mysterious. This
study is a detailed investigation of the domains of reflexivity and
intensification throughout the history of English. It provides a
comprehensive analysis of the possible source contexts for
Self-forms in Old and Middle English. Backed up with a wide range
of data from early Middle English, the compound intensifier is
traced to discourse-pragmatic motivations: expressive strategies
linked to specific discourse traditions become rapidly
grammaticalized once the former Old English standard gave way to
large-scale variation in Middle English.
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