Last week, at the symposium The Effects of Prescriptivism in Language History organised at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics by Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke van der Wal, I presented a paper called The Age of Prescriptivism. For the paper I was able to draw on input from the readers of this blog, particularly on questions about irregular verbs which I put and on the discussion about drownded: I’m grateful to you all for your comments! If you are interested, you may find the presentation here: The Age of Prescriptivism; comments will be welcome. (There was also a handout, though with references only.)
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