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The present chapter continues the discussion of whether prescriptivists influenced the development, or rather the decline, of the inflectional subjunctive in the Late Modern English period. This will be done by focussing on the properties (see Chapter 2, Section 6) that emerged from the analysis in Chapter 2 and actual usage of the inflectional subjunctive in this period, the study of which will be a corpus-based investigation.
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Auer, A. (2009). The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century England: A Corpus Study. In: The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism. Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584365_3
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