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Adminicular Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
(because they aren’t actually true)

gathered at great personal risk of
psycholinguistic harm from actual student papers

by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

This 18th collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written papers, demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

Test question

The word cleaner is ambiguous. Propose two alternative word-formation rules that explain the ambiguity.

Answers

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Zwicky Unretires AgainSpecGram Wire Services
A comment on Mr Slater’s (be)musings on Pinnacle SherpaMadalena Cruz-Ferreira
SpecGram Vol CLXII, No 2 Contents