The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
A. Auer
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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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-13
- 9780230574410
- ISBN-10
- 0230574416
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2008
- Publication date
- 2008-12-19
- Pages
- 221
- Dimensions
- 216x140x