A much-debated issue in English is the use of “epicene pronouns”, i.e. third-person singular pronouns of indeterminate gender. Previous studies have shown that singular they is the most common epicene in L1 English, but this pronoun has not received mu
may be attributed to the singular fact, that their existence was altogether unknown to the world until the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent islands by the agent of the Spanish Viceroy. ...
Bare count singulars in SpanishVallejo, David RubioProceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
InEnglish grammar,singular "they"is the use of thepronounthey, them,ortheirto refer to a singularnounor to certainindefinite pronouns(such asanybodyoreveryone). Also calledepicene "they"andunisex "they." Though strictprescriptive grammariansregard the singulartheyas agrammatical error, it has be...
Bare nominalsBrazilian PortugueseSpanishFrenchSyntaxMorpho-syntax of numberSingular predicative nominals in English generally require an indefinite article, while ... A Munn,C Schmitt - 《Lingua》 被引量: 118发表: 2005年 Second-Person Singular Pronoun Options in the Speech of Salvadorans in Houston...
I accept their arguments and in principle I agree, but I’d be loath to accept this use of they in my writing or editing. The onus against it is still so strong that one who uses it, even consciously, is deemed a lesser writer for so doing. And although I know that’s silly on ...
Yet they are unlike bare plural people or indefinite singular a person in that they exhibit a sensitivity to first-person perspective. This relationship ... H Pearson - 《Annual Review of Linguistics》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 加载更多研究点推荐 First Person Singular (Plural) ...
Students will not be able to use Spanish singular and plural nouns, adjectives, and verbs correctly just by studying them. They need to see them in context. Los plurales Google Drive Activities begin with comprehensible input as students move pictures to the corresponding s...
In these examples the nouns lamp, bookcase, chair, and desk are all singular because they indicate only one. What words are always plural? There is a small group of nouns that exist only in the plural form, for example: clothes, pants, scissors, shorts, thanks, trousers. What is a ...
Speech samples were obtained from Mexican-American children who attended a monolingual school (N = 67) and Mexican-American children who attended a bilingual school (N = 59) in the same school district. The children were asked to tell the story of a silent movie they had watched immediately ...