The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

ebook English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century · Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

By A. Auer

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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.
The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism