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Tag Archives: Prescriptivism conference
The project continues …
The Bridging the Unbridgeable project officially ended nearly five years ago, but almost all of us are presenting a paper at the next Prescriptivism Conference, held online (no fee!) at the University of Vigo from 23 – 25 September 2021. … Continue reading
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The next Prescriptivism conference: 21-23 June 2017
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
Pre-conference workshop
Attitudes to Prescriptivism is the theme of a workshop that we will hold on Tuesday 11 June 2013as a ramp-up to the conference Prescription and Tradition in Language which will take place here at Leiden University. There is more information about the workshop on the … Continue reading
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Prescription and Tradition in Language: call for papers
Fourth Conference on Prescriptivism: for the call for papers, click on the link above.
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New publications on prescriptivism
This morning, I found the following email from Carol Percy in my mailbox This email is being sent to the addresses of people who presented and/or attended and/or in some way supported the 2009 conference on Prescriptivism & Patriotism. I … Continue reading
Prescriptivism conference: Leiden 2013
As announced earlier in this blog, the next prescriptivism conference will be held in Leiden, on 12, 13 and 14 June 2013. A call for papers will be launched soon. Meanwhile, we are happy to inform our readers that we … Continue reading