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Re:African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard Engli... by vorg on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:52PM (#15460319)
You omitted 2 of the reflexive pronouns. Only the 1st and 2nd person forms use the possessive:

  * myself, ourselves, yourself.
All of the 3rd person forms use the personal pronoun:

  * themselves, himself, herself, itself
Does AAVE also use "theirselves" ?
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Re:African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard Engli... by somecontext on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:11PM (#15461713)
This article http://acrwebsite.org/volumes/7610/volumes/v21/NA-21 claims that AAVE uses "theirselves".

A quick search on Twitter suggests that "theirselves" is indeed used by people who use "hisself", but perhaps half an order of magnitude less than "themselves".

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