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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism : English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century (1st ed. 2009)

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change series
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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.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1349365254 / 9781349365258
Paperback / softback
425
19/12/2008
United Kingdom
221 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 221 p. 2 illus.
140 x 216 mm