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The grammarians reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Sidney Greenbaum
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Abstract

In ET17, Tony Fairman claimed that some descriptive grammarians are becoming prescriptive and that they risk presenting ‘Standard English’ as if it were all of English or at least the only English that matters. ET asked four professional grammarians to respond to his observations. Sidney Greenbaum and John Sinclair were specifically named by Tony Fairman.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 9 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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