Idiolect or style level?

Recent mail from Rodney Huddleston quotes me on pronoun case: Note again the contrast between WHO and the ordinary personal pronouns. For the ordinary personal pronouns, Form1 [the ‘nominative’] has, for many speakers, come to be seen as formal, serious, and emphatic — a development that leads some of these speakers to prefer “between you … Continue reading Idiolect or style level?