The Modesty Principle: Alternation Between Me and X and X and I
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This paper aims at exploring case variations and further case-ordering interactions in coordinate subjects of informal English. Assuming with Quirk et al. (1985) and Wales (1996) that not only the first-person nominative but the first-person accusative case is subject to courtesy, we argue that Kuno’s (1987) Modesty Principle can still account for English speakers’ preference of me and X over X and me, as well as of X and I over I and X. The argument is based heavily on Winter’s (2008) claim that the first-person nominative pronoun carries a semantic feature, distinguishing it from its accusative counterpart. Given such a difference in semantic feature as observed in the first-person pronominal forms, an explanation is claimed to be possible for why the Modesty Principle is categorical to nominative case, while it is not to accusative case.
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This paper aims at exploring case variations and further case-ordering interactions in coordinate subjects of informal English. Assuming with Quirk et al. (1985) and Wales (1996) that not only the first-person nominative but the first-person accusative case is subject to courtesy, we argue that Kuno’s (1987) Modesty Principle can still account for English speakers’ preference of me and X over X and me, as well as of X and I over I and X. The argument is based heavily on Winter’s (2008) claim that the first-person nominative pronoun carries a semantic feature, distinguishing it from its accusative counterpart. Given such a difference in semantic feature as observed in the first-person pronominal forms, an explanation is claimed to be possible for why the Modesty Principle is categorical to nominative case, while it is not to accusative case.
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