Language Between Description and Prescription: Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English

by Lieselotte Anderwald

Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the time noticed the language changing around them, and how they reacted. In particular, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not all features undergoing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190270675
• ISBN13: 9780190270674
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"