@article{Fici_2020, title={The Pronoun sobi Used as an Intensifier in Spoken Ukrainian. A Comparison with Russian and Italian}, volume={17}, url={https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/9020}, DOI={10.13128/Studi_Slavis-9020}, abstractNote={<p>Starting from the idea that intensification does not modify the notional meaning of an utterance, and that a morphological item can express more than just intensification, this article aims to present the peculiarities of the Ukrainian reflexive pronoun <em>sobi</em> ‘self’, in comparison to the similar Russian pronoun <em>sebe </em>and the Italian <em>si</em>. The analysis utilizes a contemporary Ukrainian novel and its translation in Russian and in Italian, and a story originally written in Russian and later translated in Ukrainian. Comparing sentences containing the reflexive pronouns <em>sobi </em>and <em>sebe</em>, we observe that the occurrence as mark of intensification concerns only a limited class of verbs (or predicates). In particular, it expresses the peculiar state of satisfaction experienced by the subject in the circumstances expressed by the verb.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Studi Slavistici}, author={Fici, Francesca}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={229–240} }