The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism E-Book

A. Auer

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008

Beschreibung

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.