The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
Format: Print Book
ISBN: 9781349365258
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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.
Publication Year: 2009
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: P
Weight (Gram): 307