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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIV, 221 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230584365 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9780230584365 |