At the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, one of the plenary papers will be on prescriptivism. The speaker is Anne Curzan, from the University of Michigan, and her paper will be called “Prescriptivism: More Than Descriptivism’s Foil”.

The conference will take place at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), from 25-28 August, 2012. For more information on the conference, see the conference website.