Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosemarie Whitney Ostler is involved.

Title

Theoretical Syntax 1980–1990: An annotated and classified bibliography

Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 21] 1992. viii, 192 pp.

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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