The use and prescription of epicene pronouns: a corpus-based approach to generic he and singular they in British English
In English the personal pronouns are morphologically marked for grammatical number, whilst the third-person singular pronouns are also obligatorily marked for gender. As a result, the use of any singular animate antecedent coindexed with a third-person pronoun forces a choice between he and she, whe...
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2011
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