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Grammatical Differences Between B ritish and A merican E nglish

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ID23706255
AuthorsVerena Jäger, Britta Mondorf
Year2015
Pages1-13
Publication date2015-12-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1472
OpenAlexW2289958798
ISBN9781405198431
LanguageEN
References cited25

Laypersons can often name the odd British–American difference in pronunciation, orthography, or vocabulary, but they are hard put to name grammatical contrasts. Even in linguistics British–American contrasts on the levels of phonology, orthography, and the lexicon have been far more extensively studied than grammatical differences.

Lexicon · Linguistics · Orthography · Phonology · Pronunciation · Vocabulary · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy

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