Reading list
Primary texts
* 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, New York: Peter Lang. Vol. 2, pp. 599-617
* Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable (2002), A history of the English language (5th ed.), London: Routledge. Ch. 11 (pp. 351-408): ‘The English language in America’
* Biber, Douglas (1987), ‘A textual comparison of British and American writing’, American Speech 62: 99-119
Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Geoffrey Leech (2002), Longman student grammar of spoken and written English, London: Longman [Excerpts]
* Elsness, Johan (1990), ‘The present perfect in American and British English: Some results from an elicitation test’, in Graham Caie, Kirsten Haastrup, Arnt Lykke Jakobsen, J?rgen Erik Nielsen, J?rgen Sevaldsen, Henrik Specht and Arne Zettersten (eds.), Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Copenhagen: Department of English, University of Copenhagen. Vol. 1, pp. 169-178
* Elsness, Johan (forthcoming) ‘The present perfect and the preterite’, in Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Grammatical Differences between British and American English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
* Finegan, Edward (2001), ‘Usage’. In John Algeo (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language VI: English in North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 358-421
* Hundt, Marianne (1997), ‘Has British English been catching up with American English over the past thirty years?’ In Magnus Ljung (ed.), Corpus-based studies in English, Amsterdam – Atlanta: Rodopi. Pp. 135-151
* Johansson, Stig (1979), ‘American and British English grammar: An elicitation experiment’, English Studies 60: 195-215
* Mair, Christian (2002), ‘Three changing patterns of verb complementation in Late Modern English: a real-time study based on matching text corpora’, English Language and Linguistics 6/1: 105-131
Tottie, Gunnel (2002), An introduction to American English. Oxford: Blackwell
* Vanneck, Gerard (1958), ‘The colloquial preterite in modern American English’, Word 14: 237-242
* Available in text collection from Akademika
For reference
Francis, W. Nelson and Henry Ku?era (1982), Frequency analysis of English usage: Lexicon and grammar, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Hofland, Knut and Stig Johansson (1982), Word frequencies in British and American English, Bergen: Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
Johansson, Stig and Knut Hofland (1989), Frequency analysis of English vocabulary and grammar 1 & 2, Oxford: Clarendon
Ku?era, Henry and W. Nelson Francis (1967), Computational analysis of present-day American English, Providence: Brown University Press