A more special use of the third person singular pronoun in Shanghainese

Variation of the third-person singular pronoun in Hong Kong Cantonese

Background: The third-person singular pronoun佢 in Hong Kong Cantonese has several variations, including the more standard (citation) form koei and its variant forms, such as hoei, toei, and oei. Some speakers use both koei and other forms alternatively, while some others consistently use only one of them (Bauer and Benedict 1997). This variation phenomenon is widely observed in current Hong Kon...

Variations of the third-person singular pronoun in Hong Kong Cantonese

Effect of Metalinguistic Feedback on Chilean Preservice Teachers’ Written Use of the Third Person Singular Suffix -s

This study addresses the impact of 2 types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on the acquisition of the third person singular -s in English. The study followed a quasi-experimental design: 2 experimental groups and 1 control group that included 57 preservice teachers from a Chilean university. The experimental groups underwent a treatment based on the provision of direct metalinguistic feedba...

differences in english & persian pronominal systems as a challenge in literary translation; rendering the third person singular pronoun in the translations of hafiz’s lyrics

the translation of persian poems necessitates the fluency of the translator in source and target languages as well as great knowledge about the delicacies of poetry and the intellectual, social and cultural background of the poet. one of the problems in the process of translation is the incompatibility of the syntactic structures and morphological and grammatical features of the two languages. ...

Give us a Gender Neutral Pronoun, Yo!: The Need for and Creation of a Gender Neutral, Singular, Third Person, Personal Pronoun

This essay outlines the problems associated with the history and current absence of a genderneutral third-person singular personal pronoun in the English language. The combination of the social and grammatical consequences of this language gap results in pronoun choices that are either politically incorrect or verbose. Experts’ attempts to fill this language gap have failed to take root on any ...