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How and when do (prescriptive) grammarians use (descriptive) linguistics?
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How and when do (prescriptive) grammarians use (descriptive) linguistics? I'm asking because I have a (very nebulous) interest in using learning about linguistics for this reason.
Some examples, or even (!!) a book length introduction to linguistics and grammatical prescriptions, would be great.
linguistics descriptive-grammar prescriptive-grammar
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How and when do (prescriptive) grammarians use (descriptive) linguistics? I'm asking because I have a (very nebulous) interest in using learning about linguistics for this reason.
Some examples, or even (!!) a book length introduction to linguistics and grammatical prescriptions, would be great.
linguistics descriptive-grammar prescriptive-grammar
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
asked 5 hours ago
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migrated from english.meta.stackexchange.com 19 mins ago
This question came from our discussion, support, and feature requests site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts.
Moving to Main, but please note that book-length answers mean the question is too broad. This is likely to be closed for that reason.
– Andrew Leach♦
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How and when do (prescriptive) grammarians use (descriptive) linguistics? I'm asking because I have a (very nebulous) interest in using learning about linguistics for this reason.
Some examples, or even (!!) a book length introduction to linguistics and grammatical prescriptions, would be great.
linguistics descriptive-grammar prescriptive-grammar
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
asked 5 hours ago
user3293056user3293056
683719
How and when do (prescriptive) grammarians use (descriptive) linguistics? I'm asking because I have a (very nebulous) interest in using learning about linguistics for this reason.
Some examples, or even (!!) a book length introduction to linguistics and grammatical prescriptions, would be great.
linguistics descriptive-grammar prescriptive-grammar
linguistics descriptive-grammar prescriptive-grammar
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
asked 5 hours ago
user3293056user3293056
683719
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
asked 5 hours ago
user3293056user3293056
683719
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
edited 18 mins ago
Andrew Leach♦
80.3k8154258
80.3k8154258
asked 5 hours ago
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683719
asked 5 hours ago
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Moving to Main, but please note that book-length answers mean the question is too broad. This is likely to be closed for that reason.
– Andrew Leach♦
19 mins ago
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Moving to Main, but please note that book-length answers mean the question is too broad. This is likely to be closed for that reason.
– Andrew Leach♦
19 mins ago
Moving to Main, but please note that book-length answers mean the question is too broad. This is likely to be closed for that reason.
– Andrew Leach♦
19 mins ago
Moving to Main, but please note that book-length answers mean the question is too broad. This is likely to be closed for that reason.
– Andrew Leach♦
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