Emphatic Reflexives · Jos Tellings

Emphatic Reflexives

Expressing identity in Imbabura Quichua

Expressing identity in Imbabura Quichua in Proceedings of SULA 8

Abstract: The way to express token identity (‘the same X’) in Imbabura Quichua is also used to express intensifiers (‘X himself’) and repeated action (‘X again’). I argue that the semantic core of these meanings is the identity function. The paper discusses the implications for the typology of intensifier expressions.