Editing They (section)

== Morphology ==
In [[Standard English|Standard]] Modern English, ''they'' has five distinct word [[Morphology (linguistics)|forms]]:<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Huddleston |first1=Rodney |last2=Pullum |author1-link=Rodney Huddleston |first2=Geoffrey K. |author2-link=Geoffrey K. Pullum |title=[[The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=2002}}</ref>

* ''they'': the [[Nominative case|nominative]] (subjective) form
* ''them'': the [[Accusative case|accusative]] (objective, called the '[[Oblique case|oblique]]'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=[[The Cambridge History of the English Language]] |volume=III: 1476–1776 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=1999 |editor-last=Lass |editor-first=Roger |author-link=Roger Lass}}</ref>{{Rp|146}}) and a non-standard [[English determiners|determinative]] form.
* ''their:'' the dependent [[Genitive case|genitive]] (possessive) form
* ''theirs'': independent [[Genitive case|genitive]] form
* ''themselves'': prototypical [[Reflexive pronoun|reflexive]] form 
* ''themself'': derivative [[Reflexive pronoun|reflexive]] form (nonstandard; now chiefly used instead of "himself or herself" as a reflexive [[epicenity]] for ''they'' in pronominal reference to a singular [[referent]])<ref>{{cite web |title=themself: pronoun |work=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |edition=online |date=2021 |publisher=[[Merriam-Webster]] |url= https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/themself |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>