The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
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 infl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2009.
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| Colección: | Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change.
Springer eBooks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37331267*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | XIV, 221 p. 2 illus |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780230584365 |
