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Pronouns as/with determiners: "we/you/%them pilots", "you all", "you two" #436

Open nschneid opened 11 months ago

nschneid commented 11 months ago

I can't find an issue for this, though it came up in the Mischievous Nominals paper - example (5):

Standardly, it is just "we/us" and "you" that do this, though dialectal variants are possible like "keep them lovely kebabs coming" (EWT).

Arguably, "we/you" are acting as determiners, making the nominal definite and adding person features. (This is the CGEL analysis.) EWT follows this analysis: EWT PRON-as-det

But this is rare, and annotators/users might be surprised to see (what look like) pronouns in det position.

GUM has dep(guys, you).

The MNCs paper suggests nmod:desc.

Some other related things:

amir-zeldes commented 10 months ago

dep in GUM is intentional and generally applies as a placeholder for things we wanted to be nmod:desc (until whenever we decide to implement that, if we do)