Monthly Archives: August 2016

Soon out now: Prescription and Tradition in Language

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

Some of you may remember the wonderful Prescriptivism Conference we held here at Leiden in June 2013: I’m very happy to be able to announce the publication of the collection of articles that resulted from it in only a few … Continue reading →

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The “new” like and non-native speakers of English

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

Earlier this summer, Susan de Smit finished her BA thesis in English here at Leiden on the use of “the new like” by native as well as non-native speakers of English. If you are interested in the results of her … Continue reading →

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Children in a world of prescriptivists

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

Lonneke van Leest-Kootkar is one of the few students from my Testing Prescriptivism course who still has a second blogpost to publish. As you will see, she is also the mother of two small children: The inspiration for this blogpost … Continue reading →

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English Today: just out

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

Our latest contribution to English Today was written by Hielke Vriesendorp, a research master student at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with an interest in prescriptivism. His paper is called “The Internet’s (New) Usage Problems”, and its aim is … Continue reading →

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