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Thread #157237 Message #3709688
Posted By: GUEST
18-May-15 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Grammar for Songwriters
Subject: RE: Grammar for Songwriters
You and I - this was the topic on Saturday for the weekly column of OLiver Kamm, The Pedant, in The Times.
He considers that 'you and I' is a coordinate phrase and argues that the choice between 'between you and me' and 'between you and I' is one of style and register alone.
"Henry Sweet, a great philologist of the early 20th century, concluded that 'you and I' is so common a phrase that English speakers treat it as having an invariant last element. Noam Chomsky, the famed American linguist, argues in 'Barriers' (1986) that the compound phrase is a barrier to assigning grammatical case."
Unfortunately, The Times' archive is only available by subscription.