We had a great discussion with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden) in our seminar on “Bad Grammar” this week – from preposition stranding to Robert Lowth to Professor Tieken’s usage guides data base to prescriptivism as an area of linguistic inquiry and Geoffrey Pullum’s anniversary note to Strunk and White. Four weeks to go until we will hold our end-of-semester symposium.
