Language between description and prescription : verbs and verb categories in nineteenth-century grammars of English / Lieselotte Anderwald.

Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were...

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Main Author: Anderwald, Lieselotte, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Oxford studies in the history of English.
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