Download or read book The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism written by A. Auer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.