how you can tell in arabic :my teachers -mu&allimiyya? and
in mu teachers - bi mu&allimiyya ?
How you tell my two books and in my two books (i`m interested what is
the rool for the adding of posses. pronoun for 1 sing. (-i:) to names
in dual and plural (with -u:na and -i:na)?
Re: Yo ... among Baltimore teenagers of a non-gender-specific third person pronoun....Linguistics for Teachers class asked, "Have you ever heard kids using ... (alt.usage.english)
Yo ... Interesting article in this week's New Scientist, about the emergence among Baltimore teenagers of a non-gender-specific third person pronoun. ... Elaine Stotko...is a linguistics expert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland She was fascinated when in 2004 a teacher in her Linguistics for Teachers class asked, "Have you ever heard kids using 'yo' when they mean he or she?" ... About half the teachers taking the course had also heard "yo" used in this way, leading Stotko and Margaret Troyer to research this development, which they have now documented in the linguistics journal American Speech. ... They found that from at least 2004 to the present day, middle-school and high-school students in Baltimore have been using "yo" as a gender-neutral personal pronoun in sentences such as: "Yo put his foot up" and "Yo looks like a freak". ... (alt.usage.english)
Re: the case of the conjoined NP ... This is why English speaking children everywhere say 'Me and Sam went home' and the like, until parents or teachers demand that they say 'Sam and went home'. ... The point was that the pronoun was embedded in some sort of complex phrase that served as the subject NP. ... His proposed rule for English was that the subject forms were used only when the pronoun was the subject of a verb in the same domain. ... (sci.lang)
Re: Fascinating book ... ... > You're probably right about the pronoun thing, but I wonder if calling... The word '先生' is used not only for teachers, but also for medical doctors, ...novel writers, etc. So if you mean 'teacher' by '先生', you'll say: ... (sci.lang.japan)
