Lexicographers, on the other hand, claim their expertise as descriptive—i.e., documenting how grammar is diverse and changing in society, even when it deviates from what grammarians might find ...

There I met a professor and linguist named Anne Curzan, who matched and even exceeded my passion for syntax and phonetics. She centered the course by introducing two contrasting ideas: prescriptive ...

This picture shows the importance that some professors and student put on grammar. Photo courtesy of zazzle.com. I like grammar. I’m not saying I’m a grammar-Nazi, but I enjoy learning about the ...

Your grammar is defining them as thereby getting something wrong. That too is prescriptive. Response to Objection 4 : But without an account of the normal practice in the dialect that I describe ...

There is no right or wrong in Descriptive Grammar. 2. Prescriptive Grammar-It also refers to the language structure (same as descriptive) but the only difference is that it is based on how the ...

Your Letters: Grammar Cops, Where's Scott? March 14, 2009 8:00 AM ET. ... There are two kinds of grammarians, prescriptive and descriptive, he writes. The prescriptive kind, ...