FPP1S First person singular pronouns

MFTE PP1S child of FPP

Definition

I, me, my, myself, mine.

Parent

FPP

Detection Rules

mfte

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (5 items)
I me my myself mine

Requires: word, pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\\$"]
Word list (4 items)
I me my myself

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

I found myself thinking about the old days.

Give me the map and let me look at it.

I don’t know.

Source: le_foll_2024

It isn’t my problem.

Source: le_foll_2024

Non-examples

We must leave at once.

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

Biber counted 1st person as a single category; MFTE splits singular/plural.

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