Linguistics Beach Reading This Weekend
Two Language Log posts worth revisiting:
Geoff Pullum on grammatical authority; Mark Liberman on ancient precedence for the notion of “correctness.” And today at LL, rigorous defense of beginning a sentence with and.
Earlier: Pullum exhorts English teachers.
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 06/03 at 10:04 AM
Have Language Log, will travel. But where’s the beach? Do you provide virtual beaches for Calvin students and faculty? If so, that’s beachy keen! :-)
Posted by Wayne Leman on 06/05 at 12:21 AM
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