This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparis
Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as w
This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the pr
"A selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), which took place from 24-28 August 2004 at the Universi