Het verlies van een persoonlijk voornaamwoord
Waarom hun straks geen hun meer zeggen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21701095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen De Hoop (0000-0001-8652-1146, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 355-362 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nederlandse taalkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-5845 • E-ISSN: 2352-1171 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.5117/nedtaa2020.2-3.018.deho |
| OpenAlex | W3094476982 |
| Language | NL |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
The loss of a personal pronoun. Why they will not be saying hun anymore The personal pronoun hun ‘them’ meets a lot of criticism in Dutch society, not just from language purists, but from language users in general. This can be attributed to a strong mistrust of the pronoun, given that it is well-known for violating no less than two prescriptive rules, one of which prohibits its use as a subject, and the other its use as a direct object or complement of a preposition. This has resulted in a tendency to avoid the use of this personal pronoun across the board. Despite the fact that hun ‘them’ as a personal pronoun has the advantage of exclusively referring to animate or even human individuals, I argue that it is fighting a losing battle with the other personal pronouns that are used to express third person plural. I conclude that it will withdraw from the competition in order to commit itself entirely to its function as a possessive pronoun ‘their’, in which capacity it is unique
Commit · Linguistics · Object pronoun · Personal pronoun · Plural · Possessive · Pronoun · Subject pronoun · Computer Science · Employee Welfare and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |