British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting 'They' and 'He' /
This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English. The analysis is framed by a consideration of language-internal factors, such as syntactic agreement, and language-external factors, which include traditional grammatical prescriptivism and the lan...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137332738 |