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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...