The compound pronouns 'someone/somebody' and 'everyone/everybody' in present-day spoken English : an analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpus Ghent University
This article builds on previous research on the compound pronoun sets somebody/someone and everybody/everyone to test the hypotheses that the -one and -body forms are semantically identical, but that stylistic and social factors play a role in their relative frequencies. Earlier findings are checked in informal conversation in the Spoken BNC2014. The distribution of the variants is examined in correlation with sociolinguistic parameters, and ...