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Quick question: can anyone recommend a cheap, elementary, even popular
text that explains the prescriptivism/descriptivism issue? I'm
teaching a 'traditional grammar' course, and I'd like to have a cheap
supplemental text that covers the basic points (partly because I don't
want to spend a whole lot of time on the issue).<br>
I have Bauer and Trudgill's <i>Language Myths</i>, but I was wondering
whether there was anything else folks would recommend. And I've left
it a little late (the main text is already ordered).<br>
Many thanks,<br>
<br>
Geoff<br>
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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of English/Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:geoffnathan@wayne.edu"><geoffnathan@wayne.edu></a>
Phones: C&IT (313) 577-1259/English (313) 577-8621</pre>
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