Datapoint Kriol/Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns

In the Victoria River District variety, the Kriol reflexive/reciprocal pronoun mijelb is also used as emphatic pronoun (as in English 'by/for herself', adjoined to a verb phrase) but not in a more grammaticalized intensifying function such as in "the director himself opened the door" (adjoined to a noun phrase); at least there is no attested use of mijelb in this way in the dataset. We were also not able to find relevant data in the literature and texts available for other varieties.

Values

Intensifiers and reflexives are identical

Example 25-270:
Imin ranawei mijelb na, maitbi fraiten.
Im=in
3sg=pst
ran-awei
run-away
mijelb
self
na,
now
maitbi
maybe
fraiten.
frightened
She ran away by herself, maybe (she ran away because) she was frightened.
Example 25-238:
Im skrejim mijelb.
Im
3sg
skrej-im
scratch-tr
mijelb.
refl
He scratches himself.
Confidence:
Certain