Re: effects of prescriptivism

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> Please read Sapir's *Language* (1921; now a Dover reprint!) and Robert
> A. Hall, Jr.,'s *Linguistics and Your Language* (1951: original title:
> "Leave Your Language Alone!*). You can't _imagine_ what language study
> was like 50-100 years ago, when linguistics was a-borning.

i've not read anything from that period yet, so these suggestions are a
great help.

> I see you're in .uk. I don't know what the equivalents were over there
> back then -- possibly J. R. Firth's *Tongues of Men* and *Speech*, which
> were reprinted together as a little white Oxford paperback; nowadays,
> just about anything by Jean Aitchison will make it clear.

i'll start with Sapir and see where he leads me.

thank you.

sam
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