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What is the earliest recordest usage of you guys as a form of address and in what type of settings did it typically occur?
The earliest recordest usage of you guys as a form of address is in the early 20th century and in traditionally “male” settings and toward male addressees:
In vocative position, what is you guys' reduced form?
Guys
How many occurences of „you guys“ have been said by female speakers?
49% of the speakers are female. So about half!
What is staged orality?
A discourse that, though oral in its realisation, has been metiocusly planned beforehand
Which syntactic function is more frequent in ocurrences of you guys?
Subject position
How many percent of the referents of „you guys“ are male only?
17%
What distinguishes you guys from other alternative second-person plural pronouns like yinz or y’all?
you guys is not marked as a regionalism nor stigmatized. Instead, it is seen as of “general United States” use.
Consequence of increased syntactic involvement
Ongoing grammaticalisation of you guys as a (quasi) pronoun
What do the pairs in the show have to do with the use of „you guys“?
Each pair has a similar frequency in the use of „you guys“.