British or American English? A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns

Name: British or American English? A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns
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ISBN: 9780521371377

ISBN-10: 0521371376

ISBN-13: 9780521371377

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Algeo, Bas Aarts, Susan Fitzmaurice, Richard Hogg, Charles F. Meyer

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Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: *Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? *Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? *Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? *After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? *Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for…

Book details

List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

BAS AARTS is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London, UK. He has published widely in the field and is one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics .



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


British and American as national varieties


Differences between British and American


The basis of this study


Sources of comparative statistics and citations


Conventions and organization of this study



Parts of Speech



Verbs



Derivation



Form



Verb phrases



Functions



Determiners



Definite article



Indefinite article



Possessive construction



No determiner versus some determiner



Predeterminers and postdeterminers



Nouns



Derivation



Form



Function



Names and titles



Genitive constructions



Pronouns



Personal



Impersonal



Demonstrative



Relative



Interrogative



Indefinite



Expletive



Case



Adjectives



Derivation



Frequency and collocation



Comparison



Adjective order



Adverbs



General



Disjuncts



Comparison



Adverb order



Adverbial particles



Qualifiers



Modifying adjectives or adverbs



Modifying prepositional phrases



Modifying comparative structures



Prepositions



Choice of preposition



Omission of any preposition



Omission of the prepositional object



Prepositional phrase versus noun adjunct



Order of numbers with by



Conjunctions



Coordinating conjunctions



Subordinating conjunctions



Interjections



Syntactic Constructions



Complementation



Complementation of verbs



Complementation of nouns



Complementation of adjectives



Complementation of adverbs



Mandative constructions



Mandative present indicative



Mandative past indicative



Expanded predicates



Five "light" verbs in British and American



Modification and complementation of the expanded predicate noun



Other expanded-predicate-like constructions



Concord



Verb and pronoun concord with collective nouns



Verb concord in other problematical cases



Propredicates



Propredicate do



Complements of propredicates



Tag questions



Canonical form



Anomalous forms



Frequency of use



Rhetorical uses



Other forms and uses



Miscellaneous



Focus



Phatic language



Numbers



Dates


Bibliography of British book citation sources


Bibliography of studies, dictionaries, and corpora


Index of words