Book reviewThe Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German developments during the eighteenth century (). Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-57441-0 £50.00 $85.00
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