Bolinger's Dictum and One Right Way

[Arnold Zwicky]

for some time, i've been supporting a hedged version of No Distinction
Without a Difference and also rejecting blanket insistence on One
Right Way.  these come together in my latest Language Log posting:

AZ, 5/8/09: Making distinctions 1:
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1416

(more to come)

arnold

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