Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025pronouns question: is there any published research yet on dude and bro (and probably others) as 3psg pronouns or quasi-pronouns? stuff like "dude knows what he's doing" or "bro thinks he's him"? 2258
Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025David Hall on "man" in MLE: Hall, D. (2019). The impersonal gets personal. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. doi:10.1007/s11049-019-09447-w Him and Christian Ilbury have some other stuff on it too! Apart from that, I have only found intense discussion on r/linguisticshumor on chat/bro 130
Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025(my student wrote an excellent thesis on the [NP is him/NP thinks he's him] construction, such interesting things going on with pronouns and masculinity) 0160
