Review – Correct English: Reality or Myth? [Book Review]

Metapsychology Online Reviews 21 (10) (2017)
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Geoffrey Marnell presents philosophical arguments favoring grammatical descriptivism over grammatical prescriptivism. I argue that his explanation and defence of descriptivism reveal that his descriptivism is itself prescriptivist.

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