FPP First person pronouns

Biber C6 Xiao C49 MFTE PP1all Bohmann 1 composite

Definition

All first person pronouns (singular and plural): I, me, my, we, us, our, etc.

Children (composite)

Detection Rules

Sum of FPP1S + FPP1P

combine: FPP1S | FPP1P

Requires: pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (8 items)
i me my myself our ourselves us we

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
  • grieve_2023 — Grieve, Jack (2023) : Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis
  • bohmann_2019 — Bohmann, Axel (2019) : Variation in English Worldwide: Varieties and Genres in a Quantitative Perspective

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