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
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
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.