On So-Called “Pronouns” in English

By Paul M. Postal. 2013

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Citations in the corpus

• The subject marker in Bantu as an antifocus marker (2012, background): “Notice that pronouns are essentially intransitive determiners (see Postal 1969; Abney 1987).”
• Gender bias and stereotypes in Large Language Models (2023, methodology): “As documented by extensive research in the linguistics literature, pronouns may freely refer to either a subject or object in sentences such as "Mary told Sue that she got an A in the class"—the paradigm for the sentences used in this paper [e.g. 24, 34, 35, 53, 76, among many others].”