Forwarded from Johanna Rubba -- -----Original Message----- From: Johanna Rubba [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:50 PM To: Spruiell, William C Subject: ye/you, etc. FYI - One day I found a little offprint of an article from _The Chaucer Review_ ("Sir Gawain and _You_", vol. 5, no. 3, not dated, by Allan A Metcalf). His argument is that the uses of _you_ and _thou_ in Gawain are in accord with the idea of a T/V system in the English of the time, because of the contexts in which Gawain and the Green Knight use the pronouns. It's cute little paper. From a quick skim of the quotations, the case system is followed, with "ye" nominativem "you" oblique, and "your" possessive. Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/