Syllabus/achievement requirements

Global English

  • Melchers, Gunnel and Philip Shaw (2011), World Englishes. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Hodder Education.

  • Tottie, Gunnel (2002), An introduction to American English. London: Blackwell

  • *In text collection available from Akademika

*Algeo, John : "British and American grammatical differences" in International Journal of Lexicography , 1988. 1/1: 1-31.

*Algeo, John : "British and American mandative constructions" in Claudia Blank (ed.): Language and civilization: A concerted profusion of essays and studies in honour of Otto Hietsch, 1992. Frankfurt, Berne, New York: Peter Lang. . Vol. 2, pp. 599-617.

*Biber, Douglas : "A textual comparison of British and American writing" in 1987: 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 : "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, 2004. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 593-610.

*Elsness, Johan : "The present perfect and the preterite" in Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.), : One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English, 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 228-245.

*Elsness, Johan : "The present perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English" in Peter Collins, Pam Peters and Adam Smith (eds.): Comparative Grammatical Studies in Australian and New Zealand English, Forthcoming. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 89-114.

*Hundt, Marianne, Jennifer Hay and Elizabeth Gordon : "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, 2004. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 560-592.

*Johansson, Stig : "American and British English grammar: An elicitation experiment" in English Studies , 1979. 60: 195-215.

*Johansson, Stig and Anne-Line Graedler : "Anglicisms in Norwegian: when and where?" in Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers (eds.): In and out of English: for better, for worse?, 2005. 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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