The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

A. Auer

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 December 2008
Pages
221
ISBN
9781349365258

The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

A. Auer

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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.

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