Hello, Sharon--
Thanks for notice of this year's conference, to be held next month at Largo
again. Being able to attend last year was delightful for the chance to meet
so many fine colleagues, learn from others' presentations, and share
activities such as taking meals together and visiting the Library of
Congress. I continue to be inspired by those relations and the ideas and
information encountered there.
This year's theme carries great appeal in Amy's description of grammar
education as a "necessary [and] interesting" means of positive change. I'll
certainly be eager to read the published proceedings and regret very much
being unable to attend.
Best regards to all,
Gay Claiborne
UMUC Adjunct Professor
Greenville, SC
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From: "Sharon Saylors" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: ATEG 2012 Conference!
> Dear friends,
> Now that the semester is over, we know you are thinking ahead to
> conference opportunities for the summer. We are pleased to announce that
> the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Teaching of
> English Grammar (ATEG) will be held at Prince George's Community College
> again this year on July 27-28, 2012. The location will be Community Room
> A, Largo Student Center, 301 Largo Rd. Largo MD20774.
> The ATEG website has proposal submission guidelines, conference hotel
> info, and online registration.
> The conference theme is Occupy Grammar: Taking our Rightful Place.
> Amy Benjamin, our keynote speaker, offers the following introduction to
> the theme:
>
> Occupy Grammar! Beginning in September, 2011, a ragtag band of American
> citizens began to rattle their cages. Although Occupiers are not
> cohesive, nor are their goals explicitly stated, what they've done has
> certainly ignited new conversations, raised new questions, albeit
> without answers right now. We at ATEG also want to be heard, also want
> to challenge the status quo, also are amorphous, and certainly ragtag.
> So join us at our 23rd Conference, to be held entirely indoors, as we
> again proclaim that teaching grammar is necessary, interesting, and not
> dreary, smug, or pedantic. Let's see what we can do to change the world
> of grammar education while the other revolution marches on.
>
> Please let us know of your interest in attending and also
> any questions you may have. I look forward to seeing you again!
> Sherry Saylors, conference
> host
>
>
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 05/19/12 11:43 PM >>>
> It's well known that the Present Day English progressive passive as in
>
> My house is being painted
>
> did not come into wide use till the mid-19th c. Until then, one would
> have said-or written
>
> My house is painting.
>
> The progressive was probably the last form of the passive construction
> to develop in English. Here is an example of the older construction
> from George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860, Penguin Classics 1979),
> p. 549:
>
> "It is true, she was looking very charming herself, and Stephen was
> paying her the utmost attention on this public occasion - jealously
> buying up the articles he had seen under her fingers in the process of
> making, and gaily helping her to cajole the male customers into the
> purchase of the most effeminate futilities."
>
> The phrase "the articles he had seen under her fingers in the process of
> making" is the construction in question, where "making" in PDE would be
> "being made." Parsing the phrase as a late instance of the Early Modern
> English -ing form as a progressive passive makes sense in its historical
> context and Eliot's linguistic conservatism. What sparked my curiosity
> was how my fellow grammarians might parse the construction, not treating
> it as a slightly archaic form for 1860s English. The analysis must
> account for both meaning and grammatical form.
>
> Herb
>
>
>
> Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Ph.D.
> Emeritus Professor of English
> Ball State University
> Muncie, IN 47306
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