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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism : English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781349365258
- ISBN-10: 1349365254
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: December 2008
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 221
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