The subjunctive in the age of prescriptivism [electronic resource] : English and German developments during the eighteenth century / Anita Auer.
Anita Auer presents a comparative study relating to the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. She is concerned with the establishment of linguistic norms in the history of English and German, with a particular focus on the A...
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
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Table of Contents:
- Eighteenth-Century English Grammars and the Subjunctive Mood
- The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century England: A Corpus Study
- Eighteenth-Century German Grammars and the Subjunctive Mood
- The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Austria: A Corpus Study
- Standardisation Processes in England and the German-speaking Areas.