TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rohdenburg,Günter
AU  - Schlüter,Julia
TI  - One language, two grammars?: differences between British and American English 
T2  - Studies in English language
SN  - 0521872197
AV  - PE1072 .O54 2009
U1  - 427 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Grammar, Historical
KW  - Variation
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-451) and index; Introduction; Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schluter --; 1; Colonial lag, colonial innovation or simply language change?; Marianne Hundt --; 2; Compound verbs; Peter Erdmann --; 3; The formation of the preterite and the past participle; Magnus Levin --; 4; Comparatives; Britta Mondorf --; 5; Phonology and grammar; Julia Schluter --; 6; Prepositions and postpositions; Eva Berlage --; 7; Argument structure; David Denison --; 8; Reflexive structures; Gunter Rohdenburg --; 9; Noun phrase modification; Douglas Biber, Jack Grieve and Gina Iberri-Shea --; 10; Nominal complements; Gunter Rohdenburg --; 11; Non-finite complements; Uwe Vosberg --; 12; The present perfect and the preterite; Johan Elsness --; 13; The revived subjunctive; Goran Kjellmer --; 14; The mandative subjunctive; William J. Crawford --; 15; The conditional subjunctive; Julia Schluter --; 16; Tag questions; D. J. Allerton --; 17; The pragmatics of adverbs; Karin Aijmer --; 18; How different are American and British grammar? And how are they different?; Gunnel Tottie --; 19; New departures; Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schluter
N2  - "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. Despite being the subject of a vast body of literature, this is the first book-length treatment of British and American English, and is based on empirical analyses of present-day as well as earlier forms of the two varieties. The authors explore some of the better known contrasts, as well as a 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."--Publisher description
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