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In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). [1] English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural, both of which are cited by using the hash sign (#) or by the numero signs "No." and ...
Aug 31, 2016 · The only number that everyone agrees can be a pronoun is “one.”. As we’ve written on our blog, “one” is a personal pronoun in uses like “One does one’s best” and “One never knows.”. Like the other personal pronouns, it has possessive and reflexive forms, “one’s” and “oneself.”.
Sep 25, 2003 · The type of pronoun we are interested in here is what medieval grammarians called the primitive (non-derived) demonstrative pronoun, which includes personal pronouns such as ‘I’ and demonstratives such as ‘this’.
Nov 14, 2019 · This chapter takes as its starting point a story about word classes agreed upon explicitly or implicitly by many grammarians. 1 It can be summarized as follows: traditional grammarians analysed word classes in notional terms, with nouns referring to things, verbs to actions, and adjectives to properties. But these notional definitions are so simplistic as to be of almost no use in the study of ...
Aug 17, 2015 · 9 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. This isn’t a new story but it is one that refuses to die. The thorny question of what constitutes ‘correct’ grammar in English seems to have a cyclical life, aided and abetted by new generations of enthusiastic grammarians. It’s great that so many people are ...
Jul 29, 2016 · 1.1 Section 1: Grammarians and Grammar. The idea that grammar is a set of rules, often seen as arbitrary or unrealistic, is only one narrow view of grammar. Such a view is based on the belief that grammar: is inherently difficult and confusing, its mysteries apparent only to teachers, language mavens, or linguists.
Rather, grammarians necessarily choose particular domains to address, ‘according to linguistic and user-related criteria’ (Graustein and Leitner 1989: 9), with certain criteria privileging certain sources for those data. For example, some grammarians have been concerned exclusively with an educated, prestige-laden, style of English attested in the writings of especially admired authors.
