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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

A Auer author Charles Jones editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:19th Dec '08

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This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of prescriptivism on language change.

ISBN: 9780230574410

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 426g

221 pages