The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

by ProfessorCharlesJones (Series Editor), Dr Anita Auer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $126.54

  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.