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Peer reviewedSklar, Elizabeth S. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Examines the rule that indefinite pronouns (everyone, anybody, each, someone, nobody) take singular verbs and singular pronouns for agreement. Explores its past, proposes a revision of the rule, and suggests modifications in its application based on analysis of its actual use in English. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Research, Pronouns, Standard Spoken Usage
Guice, Stephen A. – 1987
The contributions of Peter Stephen DuPonceau and John Pickering to American linguistics in the early nineteenth century are reviewed and discussed. Despite their probable status as amateurs in the study of American Indian languages and their very limited fieldwork, they made some significant contributions to the general field of language studies…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Authors, Grammar, Intellectual History
