One language, two grammars? : differences between British and American English /
It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with comput...
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Introduction /
Colonial lag, colonial innovation or simply language change? /
Compound verbs /
The formation of the preterite and the past participle /
Synthetic and analytic comparatives /
Phonology and grammar /
Prepositions and postpositions /
Argument structure /
Reflexive structures /
Non-finite complements /
The present perfect and the preterite /
The revived subjunctive /
The mandative subjunctive /
The conditional subjunctive /
Tag questions /
The pragmatics of adverbs /
How different are American and British English grammar? And how are they different? /
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- Englisch
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Cambridge :
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2009.
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It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two varieties are included in the analyses. This makes it the first book-length treatment of British and American English grammar in contrast, with topics ranging from compound verbs to word order differences and tag questions. The authors explore some of the better-known contrasts, as well as a great variety of innovative themes that have so far received little or no consideration. Bringing together the work of a team of leading scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to those working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology.
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 461 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- ISBN:
- 9780511551970 (ebook)
- DOI:
- 10.1017/CBO9780511551970
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