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I cannot quantify (and I find it hard to imagine how to, anyway) and I think there will be some debatable cases (as your second example, devote, exemplifies).

This short entry, apart from giving interesting examples, points out that the presence of a reflexive pronoun is not necessary for a verb to qualify as reflexive. They kissed is a reflexive usage (reciprocal). It also points out behave as an intransitive verb that nevertheless admits a reflexive pronoun, as in your example.

It further gives a list of verbs that change their meaning when a reflexive pronoun takes the role of the object. I guess there will be quite a list of these.

You forget yourself

arguably means something quite different from you forget John, in that you do not really forget the object. Similarly: enjoy oneself, embarass oneself, repeat oneself, etc.

This postThis post introduces identify as arguably reflexive (intransitive) verb. Interestingly, the entry linked earlier also qualifies laugh (as in "They laughed.") as purely reflexive; I find this peculiar, even though the verb happens to translate as reflexive in my own language.

I cannot quantify (and I find it hard to imagine how to, anyway) and I think there will be some debatable cases (as your second example, devote, exemplifies).

This short entry, apart from giving interesting examples, points out that the presence of a reflexive pronoun is not necessary for a verb to qualify as reflexive. They kissed is a reflexive usage (reciprocal). It also points out behave as an intransitive verb that nevertheless admits a reflexive pronoun, as in your example.

It further gives a list of verbs that change their meaning when a reflexive pronoun takes the role of the object. I guess there will be quite a list of these.

You forget yourself

arguably means something quite different from you forget John, in that you do not really forget the object. Similarly: enjoy oneself, embarass oneself, repeat oneself, etc.

This post introduces identify as arguably reflexive (intransitive) verb. Interestingly, the entry linked earlier also qualifies laugh (as in "They laughed.") as purely reflexive; I find this peculiar, even though the verb happens to translate as reflexive in my own language.

I cannot quantify (and I find it hard to imagine how to, anyway) and I think there will be some debatable cases (as your second example, devote, exemplifies).

This short entry, apart from giving interesting examples, points out that the presence of a reflexive pronoun is not necessary for a verb to qualify as reflexive. They kissed is a reflexive usage (reciprocal). It also points out behave as an intransitive verb that nevertheless admits a reflexive pronoun, as in your example.

It further gives a list of verbs that change their meaning when a reflexive pronoun takes the role of the object. I guess there will be quite a list of these.

You forget yourself

arguably means something quite different from you forget John, in that you do not really forget the object. Similarly: enjoy oneself, embarass oneself, repeat oneself, etc.

This post introduces identify as arguably reflexive (intransitive) verb. Interestingly, the entry linked earlier also qualifies laugh (as in "They laughed.") as purely reflexive; I find this peculiar, even though the verb happens to translate as reflexive in my own language.

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I cannot quantify (and I find it hard to imagine how to, anyway) and I think there will be some debatable cases (as your second example, devote, exemplifies).

This short entry, apart from giving interesting examples, points out that the presence of a reflexive pronoun is not necessary for a verb to qualify as reflexive. They kissed is a reflexive usage (reciprocal). It also points out behave as an intransitive verb that nevertheless admits a reflexive pronoun, as in your example.

It further gives a list of verbs that change their meaning when a reflexive pronoun takes the role of the object. I guess there will be quite a list of these.

You forget yourself

arguably means something quite different from you forget John, in that you do not really forget the object. Similarly: enjoy oneself, embarass oneself, repeat oneself, etc.

This post introduces identify as arguably reflexive (intransitive) verb. Interestingly, the entry linked earlier also qualifies laugh (as in "They laughed.") as purely reflexive; I find this peculiar, even though the verb happens to translate as reflexive in my own language.