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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankOneLanguage,TwoGrammars?ItiswellknownthatBritishandAmericanEnglishdiffersubstantiallyintheirpronunciationandvocabulary,butdifferencesintheirgrammarhavelargelybeenunderestimated.ThisvolumefocusesonBritish–Americandifferencesinthestr
2、uctureofwordsandsentencesandsupportsthemwithcomputer-aidedstudiesoflargetextcollections.Present-dayaswellasearlierformsofthetwovarietiesareincludedintheanalyses.Thismakesitthefirstbook-lengthtreatmentofBritishandAmericanEnglishgrammarincontrast,withtopicsrangin
3、gfromcompoundverbstowordorderdifferencesandtagquestions.Theauthorsexploresomeofthebetter-knowncontrasts,aswellasagreatvarietyofinnovativethemesthathavesofarreceivedlittleornoconsideration.Bringingtogethertheworkofateamofleadingscholarsinthefield,thisbookwillbeo
4、finteresttothoseworkingwithinthefieldsofEnglishhistoricallinguistics,languagevariationandchange,anddialectology.Gu¨nterRohdenburgisProfessorEmeritusofEnglishLinguisticsintheDepartmentofEnglishandAmericanStudiesattheUniversityofPaderborn.JuliaSchlu¨terisAssistan
5、tProfessorinEnglishLinguisticsandLanguageHistoryattheUniversityofBamberg.STUDIESINENGLISHLANGUAGEGeneraleditorMerjaKyto¨(UppsalaUniversity)EditorialBoardBasAarts(UniversityCollegeLondon),JohnAlgeo(UniversityofGeorgia),SusanFitzmaurice(NorthernArizonaUniversity)
6、,CharlesF.Meyer(UniversityofMassachusetts)TheaimofthisseriesistoprovideaframeworkfororiginalstudiesofEnglish,bothpresent-dayandpast.Allbooksarebasedsecurelyonempiricalresearch,andrepresenttheoreticalanddescriptivecontributionstoourknowledgeofnationalandinternat
7、ionalvarietiesofEnglish,bothwrittenandspoken.Theseriescoversabroadrangeoftopicsandapproaches,includingsyntax,phonology,grammar,vocabulary,discourse,pragmaticsandsociolinguistics,andisaimedataninternationalreadership.Alreadypublishedinthisseries:ChristianMair:In
8、finitivalComplementClausesinEnglish:AStudyofSyntaxinDiscourseCharlesF.Meyer:AppositioninContemporaryEnglishJanFirbas:FunctionalSentencePerspectiveinWrittenandSpokenCommunica
