Reflexive pronoun

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"Herself" redirects here. For the toy elf, see Herself the Elf.

"Yourself" redirects here. For the song by Dream, see Yourself (song).

"Myself", "Oneself", and "Himself" redirect here. For other uses, see Myself (disambiguation), Oneself (disambiguation), and Himself (disambiguation).

In language, a reflexive pronoun, sometimes simply called a reflexive, is a pronoun that is preceded or followed by the noun, adjective, adverb or pronoun to which it refers (its antecedent) within the same clause.

In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in ‑self or ‑selves, and refer to a previously named noun or pronoun (myself, yourself, ourselves, etc.). Intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form.

In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). In a general sense, it is a noun phrasethat obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence.^[1]Different languages have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns, according to their structure.