Auer Anita:
The Subjunctive In The Age Of Prescriptivism
English And German Developments During The Eighteenth Century
Series editor: CharlesJones
Palgrave Macmillan (United Kingdom), 2008
Hardback, 240 pages
Size: 222x143 mm
ISBN: 9780230574410
ISBN-10: 0230574416
List price: £50.00
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The Subjunctive In The Age Of Prescriptivism
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.

