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ゲンダイ エイゴ ノ ニンショウ ダイメイシ
Title Alternative (English)
Notes on Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English
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language
eng
Author
Yamada, Masayoshi
Description
This paper shows one of the serial attempts to study the present-day English usage from the pedagogical grammar with a desire to improve the short-sighted interpretation of English observed in the teaching of English as a foreign language in Japan.
Pronouns replace nouns, or rather whole noun phrases. Thus, they cannot occur with determiners as the definite article or premodification : *the they (but, the man), *tall they (but, tall men) (Quirk et al. 1972 : 203-4). Strictly, however, 1st person and 2nd person are not replacive : I am thirsty/*John am thirsty ; You are thirsty/*Paul are thirsty.
Pronouns are like nouns in syntactical function in their capacity to follow prepositions, but they differ in their other collocations, in morphology, and in being a closed system.
(i) They have a three-term instead of a two-term case system.
(ii) They have a two-term number system, but morphologically unrelated number forms (Cf. boy-boys).
(iii) Gender is in them to some extent an overt system.
(iv) They are subdivided according to a grammatical category, that of person, not relevant to nouns. (Cf. Strang 1968 : 115-6)
Journal Title
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education. Literature and Social science
Volume
11
Start Page
1
End Page
12
ISSN
02872501
Published Date
1977-12-25
NCID
AN00107952
Publisher
島根大学教育学部
Publisher Aalternative
The Faculty of Education Shimane University
NII Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
OAI-PMH Set
Faculty of Education
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