Some Facts about Me and I

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of Householder(1986), concentrating now on the choices of personal pronouns ("case· assignment") in English, based upon an extensive collection of data from a variety of sources. It is shown that Klima's original scheme of four styles (L1, L2, L3, L4) can be kept by redefining, with the aim of making L" the editorially approved written style, La the normal colloquial style, L2 a slightly hypercorrect deviant and L4 a slightly substandard deviant. Appendices are presented containing many examples of most styles in the ten newly defined environments (increased from seven in the earlier article).