History of the Present English Subjunctive
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Early Modern English
English subjunctive
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- ISBN 9781474437998
- Weight: 592g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.
Lilo Moessner is Professor Emerita of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where she held a chair of Historical English Linguistics and Medieval Studies.
