Book Chapter

Here’s Looking at youse: Understanding the Place of yous(e) in Australian English

Jean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams

Dynamics of Language Changes Looking Within and Across Languages | Springer | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7

Abstract

This chapter further documents the place of yous(e) in Australian English (AuE) by analyzing occurrences in Australian literature taken from the Macquarie Dictionary’s OzCorp. Firstly, we substantiate that in AuE yous(e) has developed a singular usage alongside the plural.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Keywords

Language Arts & Disciplines