Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

  • Crystal, David (2003), English as a global language (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Tottie, Gunnel (2002), An introduction to American English. London: Blackwell

In text collection available from Akademika:

  • Algeo, John (1988), ‘British and American grammatical differences’, International Journal of Lexicography 1/1: 1-31
  • Algeo, John (1992), ‘British and American mandative constructions’, in Claudia Blank (ed.), Language and civilization: A concerted profusion of essays and studies in honour of Otto Hietsch, Frankfurt, Berne and New York: Peter Lang. Vol. 2, pp. 599-617
  • Biber, Douglas (1987), ‘A textual comparison of British and American writing’, American Speech 62: 99-119
  • Collins, Peter (2009), ‘The progressive’, in Peter Collins, Pam Peters and Adam Smith (eds.), Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 115-123
  • Collins, Peter and Pam Peters (2004), ‘Australian English: morphology and syntax’, in Bernd Kortmann (principal editor), Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar Schneider and Clive Upton (eds.), A handbook of varieties of English. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 593-610
  • Elsness, Johan (2009a), ‘The present perfect and the preterite’, in Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 228-245
  • Elsness, Johan (2009b), ‘The present perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English’, in Peter Collins, Pam Peters and Adam Smith (eds.), Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 89-114
  • Hundt, Marianne, Jennifer Hay and Elizabeth Gordon (2004), ‘New Zealand English: morphosyntax’, in Bernd Kortmann (principal editor), Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar Schneider and Clive Upton (eds.), A handbook of varieties of English. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 560-592
  • Johansson, Stig (1979), ‘American and British English grammar: An elicitation experiment’, English Studies 60: 195-215
  • Johansson, Stig and Anne-Line Graedler (2005), ‘Anglicisms in Norwegian: when and where?’, in Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers (eds.), In and out of English: for better, for worse? Clevedon, Buffalo and Toronto: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 185-200
  • Peters, Pam (2009), ‘The mandative subjunctive in spoken English’, in Peter Collins, Pam Peters and Adam Smith (eds.), Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 125?137

 

 

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