Publications

Publication details [#35082]

Newman, Michael. 1992. Pronominal disagreements: The stubborn problem of singular epicene antecedents. Language in Society 21 (3) : 447–475.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interview | pronoun | pronoun assignment | television

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores how speakers in certain television interviews handle the problem of agreement with formally singular 'epicene' antecedents, using most frequently the pronoun 'they'.