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

Auer, A.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-12-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230574410

DOI: 10.1057/9780230584365

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 221