The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism English and German Deve

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 (co

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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

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Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

This monograph series presents scholarly work in an increasingly active area of linguistic research. It deals with a worldwide range of language types and presents both descriptive and theoretically-orientated accounts of language change through time. Aimed at the general theoretician as well as the historical specialist, the series seeks to be a meeting ground for a wide range of different styles and methods in historical linguistics. Titles include: Anita Auer THE SUBJUNCTIVE IN THE AGE OF PRESCRIPTIVISM English and German Developments during the Eighteenth Century Panayiotis A. Pappas VARIATION AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC CHANGE IN GREEK From Clitics to Affixes Betty S. Phillips WORD FREQUENCY AND LEXICAL DIFFUSION Daniel Schreier CONSONANT CHANGE IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE Synchrony Meets Diachrony Junichi Toyota DIACHRONIC CHANGE IN THE ENGLISH PASSIVE Ghil’ad Zuckermann LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LEXICAL ENRICHMENT IN ISRAELI HEBREW Forthcoming title: Donka Minkova PHONOLOGICAL WEAKNESS IN ENGLISH From Old to Present-Day English

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The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

Anita Auer Assistant Professor, University of Utrecht

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English and German Developments during the Eighteenth Century

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