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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
von A. Auer, herausgegeben von Kenneth A. LoparoThis 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.