Jan 2, 2019 · Remember that thou was more than just the "second person singular" - it was later an informal pronoun as well, and picked up connotations of referring to someone of lower …

Jul 8, 2019 · In these case, the other languages you mentioned being Romance happens to be irrelevant: Germanic languages, like English is, do distinguish between 2nd person singular …

Oct 3, 2020 · Proto-Afro-Asiatic likely marked gender on second-person pronouns, and many of its descendants do the same. For example, second-person singular masculine is אַתָּה (ʔattāh) …

Oct 13, 2024 · First and second person pronouns are deictic, because their referents change depending on who is talking and who is being addressed. Demonstrative pronouns are deictic …

Oct 11, 2018 · In combination with second person pronouns one uses (te, a ti, contigo | vos, a vós, convosco) and with third person pronouns one uses (o(s), a(s), lhe(s)). I'll start with what I …

Sep 20, 2017 · For the first-person singular pronouns, it seems obvious that these pronouns can only refer the speaker, since there is always only one speaker, so it must be always …

The original Germanic 2nd person singular pronoun is no longer recognised as a Dutch word, unlike "thou" in English which is still recognised as an archaism. The word "du" got replaced …

May 22, 2023 · Nonetheless, unlike pronouns such as one and anyone, the generic you is never used with a third-person singular verb form. Consequently, the generic you is arguably not an …

Aug 6, 2023 · I am not talking about proximal/distal distinctions in third-person pronouns, nor in demonstratives (e.g. proximal/medial/distal systems). I am not talking about social …

The second person singular pronoun in PIE was tua̯om (or tue̯om). This explains why many languages have t- in the first position in second-person pronoun. There was no third-person …