Reflexive and intensive pronouns in -self

Gist. Pronouns in -self/-selves have two roles. Reflexive: an object coreferent with the subject (He hurt himself). Intensive (emphatic): "oneself, in person" — on a noun or subject (The king himself came, I did it myself). Conditions and exceptions. In writing the roles cannot always be told apart (Poutsma XXXIV §29); the criterion is function. The reflexive takes the place of an object or of a word after a preposition (obj, iobj, obl); the intensive attaches to a noun or verb without a preposition. Colloquial myself instead of I/me (John and myself went) is non-standard. Examples. She blamed herself. (reflexive); Einstein himself was there. (intensive); Do it yourself. (intensive). In UD. PRON PRP, Case=Acc|Reflex=Yes + Person/Number/Gender. Reflexive — PronType=Prs; intensive — PronType=Emp, relation nmod:unmarked (on a noun) or obl:unmarked (on a verb). EWT 2.18: Emp only in these relations (46 of 47, plus 1 appos); Prs never :unmarked. Yourself is Number=Sing, yourselves Plur. Sources. Poutsma GLME vol. 4, Ch. XXXIV §1–4, §29–31 (books/p/po/poutsma-1904-grammar-late-modern-english/text-4.md, pp. 150–158, 190–192 = book pp. 830–838, 870–872); Curme 1931 §56 D "Intensifying myself, himself" (books/c/cu/curme-1931-grammar-english-language-vol/text-1.md, pp. 514–517); UD docs/_en/dep/nmod-unmarked.md (iv), feat/Reflex.md, feat/PronType.md.

rule: en.nominal.self-reflex
what: pronouns in -self — Reflex=Yes, Case=Acc, singular
match: r[upos=PRON, suffix=self]
require: r[feats.Reflex=Yes, feats.Case=Acc, feats.Number=Sing]
severity: error
source: Poutsma GLME IV Ch. XXXIV §1; UD en Reflex

rule: en.nominal.selves-reflex
what: pronouns in -selves — Reflex=Yes, Case=Acc, plural
match: r[upos=PRON, suffix=selves]
require: r[feats.Reflex=Yes, feats.Case=Acc, feats.Number=Plur]
severity: error
source: Poutsma GLME IV Ch. XXXIV §1; UD en Reflex

rule: en.nominal.emphatic-self-rel
what: intensive -self (PronType=Emp) is nmod:unmarked, obl:unmarked or appos
match: r[feats.Reflex=Yes, feats.PronType=Emp]
require: r[rel=nmod:unmarked|obl:unmarked|appos]
severity: warn
source: Poutsma GLME IV Ch. XXXIV §29; UD en nmod:unmarked (iv)

rule: en.nominal.unmarked-self-emp
what: -self as nmod:unmarked or obl:unmarked is intensive (PronType=Emp)
match: r[feats.Reflex=Yes, rel=nmod:unmarked|obl:unmarked]
require: r[feats.PronType=Emp]
severity: error
source: Poutsma GLME IV Ch. XXXIV §3 b, §29; UD en nmod:unmarked (iv)

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