An English-literature professor at Cambridge sketches a distinction between grammarians who prescribe and those who describe; Geoff Pullum strongly objects.

Your grammar is defining them as thereby getting something wrong. That too is prescriptive. Response to Objection 4 : But without an account of the normal practice in the dialect that I describe ...

Intelligent Computational Model Of The Descriptive Grammar Of The Spanish Language. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 07 / 080717225716.htm ...

Or is it descriptive grammar day, when linguists get all huffy about the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of the language scolds among us. My inclination is to split the difference.

Grammar nerds: It’s your day, National Grammar Day, all day Thursday. For those of us who struggled in high school, groaning if the English teacher mentioned the word “essay,” take heart.

Mastering adjectives and adverbs is crucial for vivid and engaging writing. Many students struggle with this concept, leading ...

There I met a professor and linguist named Anne Curzan, who matched and even exceeded my passion for syntax and phonetics. She centered the course by introducing two contrasting ideas: prescriptive ...

Rescoring the PSATs A half-million high school students will get new scores on their Preliminary SAT®/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests (PSAT) after one question was discovered to be ...

The project will develop new digital methods for studying this fragmentary but vast text corpus. In the end, a new descriptive grammar of Greek papyri will answer such questions as to how much ...

Welcome to the Descriptive Grammars and Typology conference Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously ...