Datapoint Ghanaian Pidgin English (Student Pidgin)/Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns
The student variety of Ghanaian Pidgin English has two ways of expressing reflexivity:
- possessive pronoun + skin
- reflexive pronoun xxx-sεf.
The intensifier, however, is sεf, i.e. it is only partially identical with the reflexive pronoun. The two are therefore counted as formally differentiated.
Values 
Intensifiers and reflexives are differentiated
- Example 16-125:
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ì disgres ĩ skinì3sgdisgresdisgraceĩ3sg.possskinskinHe disgraced himself.
Source: Huber 1999: 202
- Example 16-126:
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jù dè disgres jɔ̀sɛfjù2sgdèprogdisgresdisgracejɔ̀sɛf2sg.reflYou are disgracing yourself.
- Example 16-129:
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dɛ sel lida sɛf kam laik mìdɛartselcelllidaleadersɛfintens/fockaminclaiklikemì1sg.objThe (prison) cell leader himself began to like me.
- Confidence:
- Very certain