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... language belongs to men . There are two interconnected histories that attest to male control of the development of the English lan- guage : the history of the language itself over nearly 2,000 years and the history of prescriptive grammars ...
... language belongs to men . There are two interconnected histories that attest to male control of the development of the English lan- guage : the history of the language itself over nearly 2,000 years and the history of prescriptive grammars ...
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... grammars based on Latin , and classical imitators like Lily triumphed . The grammatical tradition derived from Latin ... prescriptive grammars of patriarchy are . If we examine the rules for tense formulated by prescriptive grammarians ...
... grammars based on Latin , and classical imitators like Lily triumphed . The grammatical tradition derived from Latin ... prescriptive grammars of patriarchy are . If we examine the rules for tense formulated by prescriptive grammarians ...
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... Linguists use the terms traditional , normative , and prescriptive to refer to the eighteenth- and nineteenth - century grammars and their twentieth - century descendants . 8 In the 1960s , African - Americans began to specify how ...
... Linguists use the terms traditional , normative , and prescriptive to refer to the eighteenth- and nineteenth - century grammars and their twentieth - century descendants . 8 In the 1960s , African - Americans began to specify how ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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