Agreement patterns in English
Subtitle: diachronic corpus studies on common-number pronouns
By: by Mikko Laitinen
Series: Mémoires de la Société néophilologique de Helsinki -- 71; Mémoires de la Société néo-philologique à Helsingfors -- 71.
Publisher: Société Néophilologique
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789519040271
Subjects: English language; Historical Phonology; Pronoun; Corpora (Linguistics); Variation
Other titles: Diachronic corpus studies on common-number pronouns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic background; title: The pronoun variants and diachronic typology; title: Historical sociolinguistic framework; title: Grammaticalisation; title: Material and methods; title: He and They in indefinite anaphora in written present-day English; title: Expressing human indefiniteness in English: typology and markedness of pronouns; title: Epicene He and They and the development of English indefinite expressions during 1500-1800; title: Sociolinguistic patterns in grammaticalisation: He, They, and Those in human indefinite reference; title: Explaining present-day variation: agreement patterns of He and They with singular antecedents; title: Conclusions.