- have
based their norms on
observed prestige use of language.
Modern prescriptivist textbooks[which?] draw
heavily on
descriptive linguistic analysis. The...
- the language, and that the
prescriptivist has an
idiosyncratic view of
correct usage.
Particularly in
older prescriptivist works,
recommendations may...
- this
section is tied to
reliable sources, and there's a
great deal of
prescriptivist punditry about "codification" of
various "rules".
Please improve it...
- distinctions, many feel that
linguistics should restrain itself from such
prescriptivist judgments to
avoid reinforcing dominant class value claims about what...
- Skitt, a
contributor to alt.usage.english on Usenet. Hartman's law of
prescriptivist retaliation: "Any
article or
statement about correct grammar, punctuation...
- are
products of
verbification may meet
considerable opposition from
prescriptivist authorities (the verb
sense of
impact is a well-known example), most...
-
Shall and will are two of the
English modal verbs. They have
various uses,
including the
expression of
propositions about the ****ure, in what is usually...
-
Prescriptivism may
refer to:
Linguistic prescriptivism, the
practice of
laying down
norms for
language usage Universal prescriptivism, a meta-ethical theory...
-
Criticism of
Strunk &
White has
largely focused on
claims that it has a
prescriptivist nature, or that it has
become a
general anachronism in the face of modern...
- acceptable. The
Cambridge Grammar of the
English Language discusses the
prescriptivist argument that they is a
plural pronoun and that the use of they with...
