The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century| By: | A. Auer |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230574410 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230584365 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2009 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.