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Kristi Newmeyer Jenkins, 36, of Cape Coral, Fla., said her family will forgo a summer trip to visit family and friends "up north."
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This is a point nicely summarized by Frederick Newmeyer in a paper that I otherwise disagree with heartily, Grammar is grammar and usage is usage (PDF):
I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar 2010
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A great example of this (again from the Newmeyer paper, but originally from Martin, Church, & Patel 1987) is (4), which has 455 possible parses, many of which yield different meanings.
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This is a point nicely summarized by Frederick Newmeyer in a paper that I otherwise disagree with heartily, Grammar is grammar and usage is usage (PDF):
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A great example of this (again from the Newmeyer paper, but originally from Martin, Church, & Patel 1987) is (4), which has 455 possible parses, many of which yield different meanings.
I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Kristi Newmeyer Jenkins, 36, of Cape Coral, Fla., said her family will forgo a summer trip to visit family and friends "up north."
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These pictures from CNN iReporter Franz Newmeyer (ph) show the queen in all her glory.
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Already, researchers have found a genetic mutation that shows up as an inability to put suffixes onto words: people who carry the gene cannot add "- s" or "- er" or "- ed" to words, explains Newmeyer.
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Fisher, who also is the first incumbent of the Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in
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Newmeyer is vice president, Youth Competitive Alabama
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