The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism : English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century /

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 infl...

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Main Author:	Auer, Anita (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:	Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Comparative Linguistics. Historical Linguistics. Language and Literature. Comparative linguistics. Historical linguistics. Philology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book