summary of conditions (was Re: PSAT Glitch)
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri May 30 15:11:14 UTC 2003
dInIs sez to me:
>If you publish this exposé, we will all be even more grateful to
>you for your hard work in exposing the well-known (among linguists)
>soft underbelly of pre- (and primarily pro-) scriptivism.
i'm workin' on it, though i still have a few more topics to write
about. goodness knows where i could get it published, though, other
than the Topic...Comment section of the journal Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory. that would be a service to the profession, i
guess, but i'd hope to reach a wider, or at least different, audience.
as a step in that direction, i'll be writing a letter to my colleague
(formerly at ohio state, now at stanford) andrea lunsford about
the Possessive Antecedent Proscription. lunsford/collins, The
New St. Martin's Handbook (1999), turns out to be one of the offending
handbooks. i'll post a copy of the letter here.
arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
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