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Publication details [#6642]

McConnell-Ginet, Sally. 1979. Prototypes, pronouns and persons. In Mathiot, Madeleine, ed. Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir and Whorf revisited. Mouton. pp. 63–83.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

acceptability | generic masculine | personal pronoun | prototype | singular

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

M. provides and discusses a set of observed usages and elicited judgments of acceptability for constructions involving anaphoric personal pronouns with singular antecedents. Using 'he' for semi-indefinite singular antecedents is said to support the sociocultural invisibility of women.