Subjunctive in the age of prescriptivism, the: english and german developments during the eighteenth century
Auteur :
Auer, A.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349365258
Date de publication :
19 déc. 2008
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.