The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century

by Auer, Anita

• ISBN13: 9780230574410
• ISBN10: 0230574416
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The main topic of the monograph is the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German during the eighteenth century.

Author Biography

ANITA AUER is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. She has taught and lectured in Austria, England and the Netherlands. Her research interests and publications are mainly focused on historical linguistics in relation to English and German.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Preface	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Historical sociolinguistics	p. 3
Precept and practice	p. 4
Comparative standardology	p. 11
Outline of the book	p. 14
Eighteenth-Century English Grammarians and the Subjunctive Mood	p. 16
Introduction	p. 16
Systems of moods in the history of English	p. 17
Eighteenth-century grammarians' accounts of the subjunctive mood	p. 27
The status of the subjunctive in eighteenth-century grammars	p. 52
Subjunctive accounts after the eighteenth century	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 61
The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century England: A Corpus Study	p. 62
Introduction	p. 62
Methodological preliminaries	p. 66
The subjunctive mood and its diachronic development	p. 68
The inflectional subjunctive and gender variation	p. 79
The inflectional subjunctive and genre variation	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 85
Eighteenth-Century German Grammars and the Subjunctive Mood	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Systems of moods in the history of German	p. 88
Grammarians' accounts of the subjunctive mood	p. 92
The status of the German subjunctive mood in the eighteenth century	p. 127
Subjunctive accounts after the eighteenth century	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 131
The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Austria: A Corpus Study	p. 133
Introduction133
The subjunctive mood and its diachronic development	p. 135
The subjunctive mood in Austrian German	p. 143
Conclusion	p. 155
Standardisation Processes in England and the German-Speaking Areas	p. 157
Introduction	p. 157
Selection of norm - the situation in England and Austria	p. 159
Codification of form - the situation in England and Austria	p. 173
Acceptance by the speech community - the situation in England and Austria	p. 180
Elaboration of function - the situation in England and Austria	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 186
Notes	p. 188
Bibliography of Works Consulted	p. 197
Index	p. 216
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