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

----- 描述和规定之间的语言

ISBN: 9780190270674 出版年：2016 页码：353 Anderwald, Lieselotte Oxford University Press

Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized. The book also demonstrates that though grammars were prescriptivist, their effect was at best minimal.