reflexives
Words indicating oneself
Reflexives are words that refer back to the subject of a sentence—pronouns like myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves: She hurt herself, They blamed themselves.
In grammar discussions, reflexives also includes reflexive verbs, where the action returns to the actor: He perjured himself.
The term appears mainly in language instruction and linguistic analysis.
First-person reflexive pronoun
- yourselfReflexive second person
- herselfFeminine reflexive pronoun
- himselfReflexive male pronoun
- itselfReflexive neuter pronoun
ourselves · yourselves · themselves · oneself · self-reference · anaphoric
Repeated opening words
- bindingLegally or morally required
- antecedentSomething that precedes
- localityA particular geographic area
Pointing to oneself
- identityWho someone is
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
- ipseityPersonal individual identity
ego · self-consciousness · individuality · self-knowledge · first-person · subjectivity · phenomenology
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- self-scrutinyCritical examination of oneself
- self-analysisScrutinizing one's own psyche
- self-questioningProbing one's own thoughts
self-inquiry · self-observation · soul-searching · self-assessment · self-evaluation · self-critique · meditation · mindfulness
myself
First-person reflexive pronoun
itself · ourselves · yourselves · themselves · oneself · self-reference · anaphoric
anaphora
Repeated opening words
- bindingLegally or morally required
- antecedentSomething that precedes
- localityA particular geographic area
self-reference
Pointing to oneself
- identityWho someone is
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
ipseity · ego · self-consciousness · individuality · self-knowledge · first-person · subjectivity · phenomenology
self-examination
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- self-scrutinyCritical examination of oneself
- self-analysisScrutinizing one's own psyche
self-questioning · self-inquiry · self-observation · soul-searching · self-assessment · self-evaluation · self-critique · meditation · mindfulness · journaling
reciprocal
Shared between two parties
- Arabic grammarverb conjugation, declension, verb forms, conjugation, pronouns
- inflectionsinflections, plurals, conjugations, declensions, verb forms
- morphologymorphemes, morpheme, affixes, affix, suffixes
- reflexivesmyself, yourself, himself, herself, itself
- verb typesaction verbs, auxiliary verbs, helping verbs, irregular verbs, regular verbs
- Chomsky linguisticsuniversal grammar, merge, move, minimalist program, Noam Chomsky
- reflexive pronounsWords indicating same subject-object
- reflexive actionInvoluntary automatic response