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THE SUBJUNCTIVE IN THE AGE OF PRESCRIPTIVISM
ENGLISH AND GERMAN DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
Anita Auer, Charles Jones (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£76.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230574416 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230574410 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2008 |
| Series: |
Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change |
| Pages: |
221 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 221 p. 2 illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |