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Extensions of Usage of a Pronoun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Louise Pound
Louise Pound*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska
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Abstract

[This article treats briefly, in the chronology of their appearance, the substantive uses of the pronoun of the third person neuter: the English and American game usage, two American colloquial or dialectal usages, and the newest usage, emerging from Hollywood, with its adjectival and nominal derivatives.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 6 , Issue 4-Part2: Language Monograph No. 7: Curme Volume of Linguistic Studies , December 1930, pp. 118 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © 1930 Linguistic Society of America

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1 This paper was read at the sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 31, 1929.