British and American Grammatical Differences
International Journal of Lexicography, 1 (1):
1--31 (Mar 20, 1988)DOI: 10.1093/ijl/1.1.1
Abstract
British and American English differ from each other grammatically in a multitude of ways – not in general rules, but rather in the collocability and cooccurrence restrictions of individual words. Some important and typical examples of those differences are illustrated with examples gathered from primary sources of British English. The focus of the presentation is on Briticisms, rather than on Americanisms. The grammatical presentation is traditionally conservative.