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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Personal pronouns, Pronouns by language, T-V distinction, Majestic plural, Gender-specific pronoun, Portuguese personal pronouns, Spanish pronouns, Austronesian personal pronouns, Voseo, Slovene pronouns, Catalan personal pronouns, French personal pronouns, Proto-Indo-European pronouns, Reflexive pronoun, Generic antecedent, Japanese pronouns, Donkey pronoun, Vietnamese pronouns, Bulgarian pronouns, Clusivity, French pronouns, English personal pronouns, German pronouns, Old English pronouns, Chinese pronouns, Sanskrit pronouns and determiners, Macedonian pronouns, Objective pronoun, Dummy pronoun, Pronoun game, Indefinite pronoun, Korean pronouns, Disjunctive pronoun, Cantonese pronouns, Relative pronoun, Prepositional pronoun, Interrogative word, Distributive pronoun, Possessive pronoun, Reciprocal pronoun, Intensive pronoun, Bound variable pronoun, Pronoun reversal, Resumptive pronoun, Weak pronoun, Logophoricity, Subjective pronoun. Excerpt: In sociolinguistics, a T-V distinction is a contrast, within one language, between second-person pronouns that are specialized for varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult toward the addressee. The expressions T-form (informal) and V-form (formal) were introduced by Brown and Gilman (1960), with reference to the initial letters of these pronouns in Latin, tu and vos. In Latin, tu was originally the singular, and vos the plural, with no distinction for honorific or familiar. According to Brown and Gilman, usage of the plural to the Roman emperor began in the fourth century AD. They mention the possibility that this was because there were often two or more emperors at that time as augusti, caesares and other titles, and later separate rulers in Constantinople and Rome, but also that "plurality is a very old and ubiquitous metaphor for powe...
