Many years ago, back when I used to answer my landline telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer, “This is she.” But ...

The standard wisdom about case of pronouns that are predicative complements (and that includes many complements of "than" and "as") is that if you could fill in a clause instead of a pronoun, and in ...