By Inflectional morphology, Regards

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

'If prescriptivism is unnecessary in L1 acquisition, then dictionaries will only exist for L2 speakers, which isn't the case.' Your deduction appears to me fallacious. Using dictionaries do not necessarily mean the chap is prescribing a rule. Take for example, if I throw out the word 'les...