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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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- Author
- Auer, Anita, Anita Auer
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230584365
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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