Robin Straaijer, with Joan Beal, Morana Lukač and (eds.) (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism. Routledge.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2023). Usage guides as a text type. In Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač and Robin Straaijer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism. Abington, Oxon/New York: Routlege. 159-174.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022). Het eerste Nederlandse taaladviesboek? Neerlandistiek, 14 January 2022.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2021). Of greengrocers, sports commentators, estate agents and television presenters: who’s in a usage guide and why, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 42/9. 783-791.
Carmen Ebner (2020). “Good guys” vs “bad guys”: Constructing linguistic identities on the basis of usage problems. In: Don Chapman and Jacob D. Rawlins (eds.), Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity. Bristol/Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 173-193.
Viktorija Kostadinova (2020). Examining the split infinitive: Prescriptivism as a constraint in language variation and change. In: Don Chapman and Jacob D. Rawlins (eds.), Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity. Bristol/Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 95-120.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2020). Describing Prescriptivism. Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English. Routledge.
Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2019). Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice. In: Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers (eds.), Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-day English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 159-181.
Robin Straaijer (2019). Language Standardization. In Mark Aronoff (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2019), Usage guides and the Age of Prescriptivism. In: Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge (eds.), Norms and Conventions in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 7−28.
Special issue of English Today (December 2018) with papers from Carmen Ebner, Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw, Rebecca Gowers, Viktorija Kostadinova, Morana Lukač, Robin Straaijer and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2018), Analysing the huge mailbag: Reception of John Honey’s The Language Trap. English Today 34(4), 1-8.
Viktorija Kostadinova (2018), Language Prescriptivism. Attitudes to Usage vs. Actual Language Use in American English. PhD thesis, University of Leiden.
Carmen Ebner (2018), Concepts of correctness and acceptability in British English: Exploring attitudes of lay people. In Linda Pillière, Wilfred Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec and Diana Lewis (eds.), Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 213-233
Viktorija Kostadinova (2018), Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the early American usage guide tradition. In Linda Pillière, Wilfred Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec and Diana Lewis (eds.), Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 171–190.
Robin Straaijer (2018). Modern English Usage from Britain to America: Bryan Garner follows Henry Fowler from A Dictionary of Modern American English Usage to Garner’s Modern English Usage. English Today, 34:4, 1–9.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2018), The grammatical margins of class. In Linda Pillière, Wilfred Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec and Diana Lewis (eds.), Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 193-212
Ebner, Carmen (2018), “Sloppy speech is like sloppy dress”: Folk attitudes towards nonstandard British English. In Reem Bassiouney (ed.) Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects. London: Routledge, 125-139.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (ed.) (2018) English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ebner, Carmen (2018), Attitudes to British Usage. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kostadinova, Viktorija (2018), Usage Problems in American English. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lukač, Morana. 2018. Grassroots Prescriptivism. Utrecht: LOT.
Straaijer, Robin (2018), The Usage Guide: Evolution of a Genre. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lukač, Morana (2018), From usage guides to language blogs. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ebner, Carmen. 2017. Proper English Usage. A Sociolinguistic Imvestigation of Attitudes towards Usage Problems in British English. Utrecht: LOT.
Robin Straaijer (2017). Linguistic Prescriptivism. In Mark Aronoff (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid and Carmen Ebner (2017). Prescriptive attitudes to English usage. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.271.
Stenton, Adrian. 2017. What kind/sort/type of word are these? Number concord across the species noun phrase in International Academic English: This is a ‘postscript’ invitation to readers to supply information to the Leiden University ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable Project’. English Today 33/2, 14-15.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2017). Perspectives on Standardization: From Codification to Prescriptivism. In: Laurel Brinton (ed.), English Historical Linguistics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 276-302.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid and Carol Percy (eds.) (2017), Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing standards across time and space. Bristol: Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters 385 pp. (published 2016).
Percy, Carol and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2017), Prescription and Tradition: Establishing Standards across Time and Space. In Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Carol Percy (eds.), 1-20.
Ayres-Bennett, Wendy and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2017), Prescriptivism in a comparative perspective: The case of France and England. In: Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Percy (eds.), 105-120. (published 2016)
Straaijer, Robin (2017), A Perspective on Prescriptivism: Language in reviews of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage In: Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Percy (eds.) (published 2016)
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2016). Prescriptivism in English Literature?. English Today, 32, 4, 54–55. Cambridge University Press. (December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078416000535
Interview with Ingrid Tieken in the Leiden Humanities Faculty newsletter: Het is informatief naar twee kanten toe.
Vriesendorp, Hielke (2016). The Internet’s (New) Usage Problems. English Today, 32, 3, 18–19. Cambridge University Press. (September 2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078416000365
Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, issue 37, 3 (2016) edited by Robin Straaijer.
Lukač, Morana (2016). Review of Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia: A Corpus Assisted Approach by Nelya Koteyko. Critical Discourse Studies 13(4), 460–2.
Lukač, Morana (2016). Grammar Advice in the Age of Web 2.0: Introducing the new (and keeping the old) language authorities. English Today, 32, 2, 3–4. Cambridge University Press. (May 2016). doi:10.1017/S0266078416000134
Straaijer, Robin (2016), Time for a new (but not ‘New’) Fowler. Review of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield, 2015. English Today.
Ebner, Carmen (2016), Blaming the media? Folk attitudes towards the state of the English language and its ‘wrongdoers’. English Today 32/1. 3-4.
Ebner, Carmen (2016), Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English Review of: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (2015) Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Prepostion Placement 1500-1900. Linguist LIST 27.1498
Kostadinova, Viktorija (2015), Microsoft Grammar and Style Checker (‘Consider Revising’). English Today 31/4. 3-4.
Straaijer, Robin (2015), Attitudes to prescriptivism: an introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37, 3. 233–242. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2015.1068782
Ebner , Carmen (2015), Language guardian BBC? Investigating the BBC’s language advice in its 2003 News Styleguide. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2015.1068789
Lukač, Morana (2015), From usage guides to Wikipedia. Re-contextualizing the discourse on language use. In: M. Bondi, S. Cacchiani and D. Mazzi (eds), Discourse In and Through the Media: Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 315–50.
Lukač, Morana (2015), Linguistic prescriptivism in letters to the editor. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2015.1068790
Ebner, Carmen (2015), Review of ‘Language and identity in modern Egypt’ (Book Note) Review of: Reem Bassiouney (2014) Language and identity in modern Egypt,Language in Society 44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404515000299
Ebner, Carmen (2015), Teenage Talk Review of: Anna-Brita Stenström (2014) Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective. Linguist LIST 26.2015
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2015), Flat adverbs: acceptable today? English Today 31/3, 9-10.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Tieken and Kostadinova, Viktorija (2015), Have went – an American usage problem. English Language & Linguistics 19/2, 293-312).
Kostadinova, Viktorija (2015), Literally, too big a fuss about nothing. English Today 31/2, 3-4.
Otto, Inge (2015), A fuss about the octopus. English Today 31/1, 3-4.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2015), Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected: An early American English usage guide. In Marina Dossena (ed.). Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 55-71.
Straaijer, Robin (2015), The Hyper Usage Guide of English database User Manual. Leiden.
Ebner, Carmen (2014), “The dangling participle – a language myth?”, English Today 30/4, 3-4.
Lukač, Morana (2014), “Apostrophe(‘)s, who needs them?”, English Today 30/3, 3-4.
Straaijer, Robin (2014), “Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes.” Washington Post (appeared in print as ” ‘The Sense of Style,’ a milestone on winding road to better writing”) 7 November.
Straaijer, Robin (2014), “When Did We Start Caring About ‘Hopefully’? 250 Years of English Usage Advice”. Lexicon Valley blog at Slate.com. 7 August.
Straaijer, Robin (2014) Review of Internet Linguistics: a student guide by David Crystal, 2011. English Studies 95/5, 590–592.
Straaijer, Robin (2014), “Rules of engagement? Usage and normativism: public discourse and critical language awareness”, English Today 30/2, 11-12.
2014 A Time For Critical Language Awareness. Cambridge Extra blog. (27 June)
2014 Bruggen Slaan in Cambridge. NWO Humanities blog. (22 May)
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2014), Have went?, English Today 30/1. 11-12.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid Prescription and Prescriptivism. Feature in the Bridging the Unbridgeable blog.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2013), “Studying attitudes to English usage – Investigating prescriptivism in a large research project”, English Today 29/4, 3-12.
Straaijer, Robin (2012), “Bridging Greene & Garner“. Feature in the Bridging the Unbridgeable blog.
On the use of social media in academic teaching and research, read Twitteren met een Twist by Jojanneke Weijermars. The article also mentions this blog and our project’s facebook page.
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid guest column Kennislink: “To boldly go where no man has gone before. Over taalergernissen in het Engels” (15 November 2011)
Hedges, Marilyn “Bridging the unbridgeable’: a dialogue with the general public“, Leiden University Newsletter, October 2011 (Dutch version).
Bridging the Unbridgeable 