Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosemarie Whitney Ostler plays a role.

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Theoretical Syntax 1980–1990: An annotated and classified bibliography

Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 21] 1992. viii, 192 pp.
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

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Ostler, Rosemarie Whitney 2007 Prescriptive grammar: Taking the long view Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 243–261 | Article
Eighteenth-century prescriptive grammars were based for the most part on observable linguistic facts. Discrepancies between the prescriptive rules and actual usage usually indicate changes in progress; eventually the disputed usages either disappear or become standard. A major exception is… read more