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As postdoc in the Codifiers project, Anita Auer is preparing a monograph called The Normative Grammarians' Influence.

Key publications

• 2004. “The Treatment of the Subjunctive in Eighteenth-century Grammars of English”, in Paradigm Vol.2/8 (October 2004), pp. 3-18. 2005. “Eighteenth-Century Prescriptivism in English: A Re-evaluation of its Effects on Actual Language Usage” (co-authored with Victorina González-Díaz), in Multilingua 24(4), pp. 317-341.
• 2006. “Precept and Practice: The Influence of Prescriptivism on the English Subjunctive”, in Christiane Dalton-Puffer & Dieter Kastovsky & Nikolaus Ritt & Herbert Schendl (eds.) Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms: English from 1500-2000. Linguistic Insights. Frankfurt; Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 33-53.
• 2007. "Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive in eighteenth-century English" (co-authored with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade), in Ute Smit & Stefan Dollinger & Julia Hüttner & Ursula Lutzky & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.) Tracing English through time: explorations in language variation. Vienna: Braumüller, pp. 1-18.
• 2007. "Österreichisches Deutsch ist eine würde-volle Sprache - The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century Austria", in Leiden working papers in linguistics, 4(1), pp. 1-20. An overview is presented on the Metis website
• 2008. “Eighteenth-Century Grammars and Book Catalogues”, in Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) Grammars, Grammarians, and Grammar Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 57-75.
• 2008. “Lest the Situation Deteriorates – A Study of Lest as Trigger of the Inflectional Subjunctive”. In: Miriam Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds.), Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlijn/NewYork: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2008. “The Letter which that I Wrote – Self-Corrections in LModE Letters”, Marina Dossena and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.). Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Bern: Lang, pp. 212-234.

Papers recently presented

•  “The subjunctive mood: a politeness marker in eighteenth-century English”. 5th UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of Aberdeen, UK (12 September 2005).
• “Eighteenth-Century Grammars and Book Catalogues”. Paper presented at the Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar Writing Workshop, University of Leiden, Netherlands (9 December 2005).
• “Measuring the effectiveness of eighteenth-century grammars”. Paper presented at the Perspectives on Prescriptivism colloquium, Ragusa, Italy (20-22 April 2006).
• “Die Entwicklung des synthetischen Konjunktivs im Frühneuenglischen (1700-1900)”. Invited talk at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany (26 April 2006).
• “The letter that I wrote – Self-corrections in Late Modern English Letters”. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Bergamo, Italy (21-25 August 2006).
• “The inflectional subjunctive in selected works of Shakespeare - a socio-stylistic analysis”. Paper presented at the Medievalist Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands (15 December 2006).
• “The Leiden Northern English Letter Corpus: A Database to Measure the Influence of Normative Grammarians”. Paper presented at ICAME 28, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK (24 May 2007)
• “How novel is the language use in Romantic novels?”. Paper presented at the workshop Rebels or Reactionaries? Romantic writers in the Vanguard / Rearguard of Contemporary Linguistic Change, University of Leiden, Netherlands (29 August 2007).