PIT Pronoun IT
Definition
The pronoun “it” and its forms (it, itself, its).
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (5 items)
init
innit
it
its
itself
pybiber
cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (3 items)
it
its
itself
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
It fell and broke.
Source: le_foll_2024
I implemented it.
Source: le_foll_2024
Its impact has not yet been researched.
Source: le_foll_2024
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
- 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