Trudgill in Vocabula

[Dennis R. Preston]

Then one ought to reexamine the basis for prescriptivism; it is, as
several of us have pointed out in print over the years (me most
recently in the Watts and Trudgill Alternative Histories of English
volume; arnold most recently in his commentary and research on the
flap over reference to possessives), cut from exactly the same cloth.

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The thought of my being (or TVR being) somehow "compared to" Rush Limbaugh
stirs me unspeakably. Let me make it plain that though The Vocabula Review is a
largely prescriptivist journal (one that welcomes essays by descriptivists),
its editor and publish is, sociopolitically, a flaming liberal.




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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
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