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