Re:African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard Engli...
by jtuente on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:32PM
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To more heavily emphasize the point here consider the feminine possive as well, her/hers:
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Re:African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard Engli...
by bonzini on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:42PM
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"her" is both the possessive and the accusative, so it's consistent with either myself or himself. Itself too, since you can consider it a contraction of either "it-self" or "its-self".