Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German
(2014)
Book Chapter
McLelland, N. (2014). Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German. In G. Rutten, R. Vosters, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900. A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.3.11lel
This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on... Read More about Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German.