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Grammar Badgers

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Ingrid Tieken

A few weeks ago, I gave a guest lecture through Skype for students at the University of Wisconsin. Interesting experience, and fantastic students they were. Their teacher, Anja Wanner, told me they were busy preparing an outreach project (obligatory at … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers on standardisation

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

At last week’s symposium. Linda Pilliere announced a call for papers for the international peer-reviewed electronic journal E-rea that might be of interest to readers of this blog, so I’m passing it on. More information here.

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What kind/sort/type of word are these? Number concord across the species noun phrase in International Academic English

Posted on December 6, 2016 by adrianstenton

I’m Adrian Stenton, and I’m a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, where I’m investigating number concord across the species noun phrase, as part of the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: a project on English usage guides, which … Continue reading →

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Fresh from the press: last interactive feature in English Today

Posted on November 17, 2016 by BtU Admin

In the last two years, we have encouraged readers of English Today to contribute to our research project in our interactive features which can also be found here. The input we have received so far has been invaluable and we … Continue reading →

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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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The next Prescriptivism conference: 21-23 June 2017

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

Following the fourth conference on prescriptivism, which was held here at Leiden and co-organised by the Bridging the Unbridgeable project, the next one will be held at Park City, Utah, organised by Don Chapman from Brigham Young University. The theme for the … Continue reading →

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Our latest interactive feature in English Today: Usage advice online

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Morana Lukač

When in doubt about questions of usage, I do as I suppose most other people do as well: I google it. That is only, however, the starting point of most internet searches. What I wanted to find out when I … Continue reading →

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Blaming the media?

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Carmen Ebner

As part of our interactive feature series in English Today, the latest and ninth article has been published today in which I discuss attitudes towards the role of the media in language variation and change. In my online questionnaire, I asked informants … Continue reading →

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The Age of Prescriptivism

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Ingrid Tieken

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 … Continue reading →

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