Datapoint Papiá Kristang/Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns

The word onsóng ‘alone’ is used as intensifier and may appear in disambiguating reflexive structures:

éli já kotrá onsóng sa péu
[he PFV cut self GEN foot]
‘He cut his foot.’

The word mésu ‘even, same’ may occasionally be seen as an intensifier:

Juang mésu já kái
[Juang even PFV fall]
‘JOHN fell.’

Juáng já kái mésu
[Juang PFV fall even]
‘John really did fall.’

Values

Intensifiers and reflexives overlap

Example 42-153:
Maria ja olá onsong sa rosto na spelu
Maria
Maria
ja
pfv
olá
see
onsong
alone
sa
gen
rosto
face
na
loc
spelu
mirror
Maria saw herself in the mirror (lit. Maria saw self's face in the mirror).
Example 42-154:
María onsong ja abrí porta
María
Maria
onsong
alone
ja
pfv
abrí
open
porta
door
Maria herself opened the door.
Confidence:
Unspecified