Grammatical twist in yet another SCOTUS opinion

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Tue May 5 18:16:46 UTC 2009


On May 5, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Baker, John wrote:

>
>        It's very much a case that, in the court's view, turns on
> grammar.  Here's the basic issue, as summarized by the court:...

a reminder of a Language Log posting from back in the argument days in
this case:

CP, 2/25/09: Adverbial modification at the Supreme Court:
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1182
  [guest post by Jason Merchant]

arnold

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