Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

• Melchers, Gunnel and Philip Shaw (2011) [2^nd edition] World Englishes. Abingdon: Hodder Education.
• Trudgill, Peter and Jean Hannah (2013) [5^th edition] International English: A guide to the varieties of standard English. London & New York: Routledge.

Articles (available online or posted in Fronter)

• Algeo, John (1988), ¡®British and American grammatical differences¡¯, International Journal of Lexicography 1/1: 1-31
• Algeo, John (1992), ¡®British and American mandative constructions¡¯, in Claudia Blank (ed.), Language and civilization: A concerted profusion of essays and studies in honour of Otto Hietsch, Frankfurt, Berne and New York: Peter Lang. Vol. 2, pp. 599-617
• Biber, Douglas (1987), ¡®A textual comparison of British and American writing¡¯, American Speech 62: 99-119
• Collins, Peter and Pam Peters (2004), ¡®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. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 593-610
• Hundt, Marianne, Jennifer Hay and Elizabeth Gordon (2004), ¡®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. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2, pp. 560-592
• Johansson, Stig and Anne-Line Graedler (2005), ¡®Anglicisms in Norwegian: when and where?¡¯, in Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers (eds.), In and out of English: for better, for worse? 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