Pronominal variation in Southeast Asian Englishes: the case of the second person plural form

This study is concerned with the pronominal system in Asian Englishes, namely Indian English, Singapore English, Hong-Kong English and the Philippines English. The object of study is the second person pronoun in the plural form, which, in Present-Day English, presents the canonical form you (ambiguous between the singular and the plural) and also new forms which have been added to the paradigm (Kortmann and Schneider 2004: 1142 ), and which are unambiguously plural, as is the case of you guys (e.g. What did you guys talk last Friday <ICE-PHI:S1A-088#49:1:B>) or you all (e.g. You all can leave now <ICE-HK:S1A-023#588:1:A>) among others. Thus, in this study I intend to analyze the factors that determine the selection of the alternative forms other than you and show how the gap in the paradigm for the second person plural person in PDE in Asian Englishes is being filled with these alternative forms