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Tag Archives: MA at Leiden
What is English Grammar?
And this is Kate Taylor’s second blog post. Help her collect data by filling in her brief survey below! There are many different attitudes with regard to grammar; some people are born to learn grammar, some people work to achieve … Continue reading
Are Americanisms taking over the British Language?
Below follows Jan van den Berg’s first blogpost: “American influence is busily eroding a valuable and once firm distinction in British speech and writing” (Amis 1997: 11). This is a quotation from Kingsley Amis’s usage guide The King’s English (1997). As we … Continue reading
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Tagged Americanisms, fowler, Kingsley Amis, MA at Leiden
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MA course on prescriptivism at Leiden
Next academic year, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is offering an MA course on prescriptivism at the University of Leiden. The course, which will be called “Testing Prescriptivism”, is part of the MA track English Language and Linguistics, but is open … Continue reading
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Tagged linguistics at Leiden, MA at Leiden, prescriptivism, University of Leiden
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