Cool malapropism/eggcorn

[Amy West]

I've been supplementing the LWC's traditional definitions with the
descriptive approach I learned at MW (which was based on Quirk and
used some TG as well).

This is excellent and a good clear analysis. Many thanks again for
enlightenment.

(And I was *thrilled* to hear Grant Barrett say "edjumacating" in
jest on the A Way with Words.)

---Amy West

>in any case, this bit of dogma from traditional grammar leads people
>to insist that pronouns (well, definite pronouns, including
>relativizer "which" and demonstratives standing on their own) must
>have *NP antecedents* -- while NPs otherwise don't have to.  since
>there is no suitable such NP in (1)-(3) (or (4), for that matter),
>examples like these are labeled ungrammatical, to be replaced by the
>wordier (but no clearer) (1')-(3').  this is a tremendous shame;
>there's nothing wrong with (1)-(3).
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)

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