Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism (e-bog) af Auer, A.
Auer, A. (forfatter)

Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism e-bog

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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.
E-bog 436,85 DKK
Forfattere Auer, A. (forfatter), Jones, Charles (redaktør)
Udgivet 19 december 2008
Genrer Historical and comparative linguistics
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780230584365
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.