Reflexive and intensive se/f-forms Peter Siemund, Georg Maierand Martin Schweinherger 1. Introduction In English, the conceptual categories of reflexivity and intensification are inextricably intertwined as they are covered by the sameformal exponents. English self-forms are well-known to serve as reflexive markers (la) even though their less salient intensive uses (I b) in some contexts outrank the reflexive uses in quantitative terms by a wide margin ( Siemund 201 0). The study of reflexivity and reflexive relations has a long tradition in lin- guistics, as witnessed by a wide body of recent and not so recent Iiterature on this topic (Faltz 1985; Frajzyngier and Curl I999; Geniusiene I987 to name just a few important titles). In contrast, the amount of schoiarly work dedicated to intensive self-forms is comparatively small, effectively being inversely proportional to attested usage (Gast 2006; König and Siemund 2000a, 2000b, 2005; Siemund 2000). (I) a. John saw hirnself in the mirror. b. The mayorhirnself opened the new community pool. In our contribution we will try to provide a balanced view paying equal attention to reflexive and intensive uses of Aelf-forms. Even though the focus of the present contribution lies on the areal distributions of intensive and reflexive self-forms, it is necessary to introduce some theoretical mach- inery to understand the functions as weil as the syntactic patterns of these forms. This will be done in section 2. The discussion also necessitates the inclusion of simple personal pronouns as these may compete with self- forms in the reflexive domain. In section 3 we will provide an overview of the established knowledge relating to the areal distribution of English self- forms, which is mostly based on cursory information drawn from handbook descriptions of specific regional varieties as weil as personal observations. Section 4 will develop a more fine-grained quantitative perspective on these established findings, comparing them across the data provided by the Inter- national Corpus oj English, i.e. a set of matehing corpora from the different Siemund, Peter, Georg Maier and Martin Schweinberger (2012) ‘Reflexive and intensive self-forms’, in: Raymond Hickey (ed.) Areal Features of the Anglophone World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 409-437.