Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

<p>This book deals with expressions like English <em>myself, yourself, himself</em> and so on, and German <em>selbst</em> from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.</p>