SPP2 Second person pronouns

Biber C7 Xiao C50 MFTE PP2 Bohmann 2

Definition

You, your, yourself, yourselves. Also archaic: thy, thee, thou, thine.

Detection Rules

mfte

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (10 items)
you your yourself yourselves yours thou thee thy thine thyself

Requires: word, pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (8 items)
thee thou thy thyself you your yourself yourselves

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

If your model was good enough, you’d be able to work it out.

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

Notes

Archaic forms (thou, thee, thy, thine, ye) included.

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