LINGUIST List 22.945 Fri Feb 25 2011 Books: Historical Ling/Phonology/Syntax: Rohdenburg, Schlüter (Eds) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , One Language, Two Grammars?: Rohdenburg, Schlüter (Eds) Message 1: One Language, Two Grammars?: Rohdenburg, Schlüter (Eds) Date: 09-Feb-2011 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: One Language, Two Grammars?: Rohdenburg, Schlüter (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: One Language, Two Grammars? Subtitle: Differences between British and American English Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Editor: Günter Rohdenburg Editor: Julia Schlüter Paperback: ISBN: 9780521183963 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 35.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521183963 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 60.00 Abstract: Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text. It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two varieties are included in the analyses. This makes it the first book-length treatment of British and American English grammar in contrast, with topics ranging from compound verbs to word order differences and tag questions. The authors explore some of the better-known contrasts, as well as a great variety of innovative themes that have so far received little or no consideration. Bringing together the work of a team of leading scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to those working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology. Introduction Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter; 1. Colonial lag, colonial innovation or simply language change? Marianne Hundt; 2. Compound verbs. Peter Erdmann; 3. The formation of the preterite and the past participle. Magnus Levin; 4. Comparatives. Britta Mondorf; 5. Phonology and grammar. Julia Schlüter; 6. Prepositions and postpositions. Eva Berlage; 7. Argument structure. David Denison; 8. Reflexive structures. Günter Rohdenburg; 9. Noun phrase modification. Douglas Biber, Jack Grieve and Gina Iberri- Shea; 10. Nominal complements. Günter Rohdenburg; 11. Non-finite complements. Uwe Vosberg; 12. The present perfect and the preterite. Johan Elsness; 13. The revived subjunctive. Göran Kjellmer; 14. The mandative subjunctive. William J. Crawford; 15. The conditional subjunctive. Julia Schlüter; 16. Tag questions. D. J. Allerton; 17. The pragmatics of adverbs. Karin Aijmer; 18. How different are American and British grammar? And how are they different? Gunnel Tottie; 19. New departures. Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Phonology                             Syntax Subject Language(s): English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=53014 New! 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