Tunnels and Caves

I, Becky, have indeed begun my digging for information on my topic of choice.

In terms of scholarly sources, I have from the library:

• The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
• Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer's Resource

These are in addition to what I have at home, which somewhat straddle the line between scholarly and popular:

• Understanding English Grammar (9th Edition)
• The Elements of Style (3rd Edition)
• Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (4th Edition)
• The Canadian Press Stylebook (17th Edition)

These texts, between them, cover pretty well the tenets of usage of subject and object pronouns, as well as their places in the language, and their different roles. I am still intending to find further scholarly sources that help explain "why" subject and object pronouns as separate entities exist, preferably from a historical standpoint. I think for this purpose I should most want to find scholarly journal articles on the history of the English language, as well, possibly, as articles or books on the history of related languages that developed earlier than English. (For example, I have a Latin textbook I might want to look at for insight into nominative versus objective cases not just for pronouns but for all nouns, and how that aspect of Latin may have influenced this aspect of English.)

I have also amassed the following popular sources from the library:

• All About Me, or is it I?: Beware the Wild Pronoun
• Grammar Girl's 101 Misused Words You'll Never Confuse Again

I don't think I'll necessarily need any further popular sources, though I'll keep my eyes open on my journey; if I find a magazine article or some such which is relevant to my material, particularly one that deals with the history of different cases for pronouns, I definitely won't say no to it!