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Publication details [#20316]

Haberland, Hartmut. 1986. Jacob Grimm on the Germanic generic second person singular pronoun. In Johansen, Jorgen Dines and Harly Sonde, eds. Pragmatics and linguistics: Festschrift for Jacob L.Mey. Odense UP. pp. 79–84.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

impersonal construction | personal pronoun

Annotation

A discussion of the use of the second person singular pronoun in impersonal utterances, language watcher's arguments against this use, and historical arguments against the latter's arguments.