Re: THEORY: English Pronouns (was Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism)

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> > Not the least of which is English: We've already lost 'ye' to the same
> > phenomenon, though the opposite happened to 'him' (as acc. of 'it', not
> > 'he') and 'whom'.
>
> Reports of 'whom''s death have been somewhat exaggerated.   It's on life
> support, to be sure, but it's not gone.  I use it quite naturally in my
> everyday speech.
Hopefully it will annoy someone to know that I was taught a 'whom'-less variant
of English in school, but nowadays tend to use it, having been infected by the
use of (certain) natives.

                                                    Andreas