A Philosopher-Grammarian Gets Something Right

A Philosopher-Grammarian Gets Something Right
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017/09/07
Michael Dummett wrote some of the most dense prose I ever had the displeasure of reading, so it's hard to imagine enjoying his book on grammar. But as Geoffrey Pullum writes, although Dummett's book contains a fair degree of crank, it also offers some surprisingly lucid advice on defining parts of speech. More...