One Language, Two Grammars? - Differences Between British and American English

Klappentext An original volume focusing on British American differences in the structure of words and sentences. Zusammenfassung This volume focuses on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The first full-length treatment of the topic, it will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter; 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 Schlüter; 6. Prepositions and postpositions Eva Berlage; 7. Argument structure David Denison; 8. Reflexive structures Günter Rohdenburg; 9. Noun phrase modification Douglas Biber, Jack Grieve and Gina Iberri-Shea; 10. Nominal complements Günter Rohdenburg; 11. Non-finite complements Uwe Vosberg; 12. The present perfect and the preterite Johan Elsness; 13. The revived subjunctive Göran Kjellmer; 14. The mandative subjunctive William J. Crawford; 15. The conditional subjunctive Julia Schlüter; 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 Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter.

Product details

• Authors: G¿nter Rohdenburg, Gunter Schluter Rohdenburg, Gunther Rohdenburg
• Assisted by: Gunter Rohdenburg (Editor), Günter Rohdenburg (Editor), Gunther Rohdenburg (Editor), Julia Schluter (Editor), Julia Schlüter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521183963
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18396-3
• No. of pages: 486
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, American English, Language: history & general works, Dialect, slang & jargon, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics