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"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
<p>This dissertation adopts a functional, usage-based perspective on language to highlight key changes in American English address over the past century, especially the development of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical …