Yoko Iyeiri (ed.), Aspects of English Negation (John Benjamins, 2005)
Aspects of English Negation originates from the symposium “English Negative Constructions Revisited”, which was held at Seikei University, Tokyo, on the occasion of the 75th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan.
“To be different from or to be different than in Present-day American English: A Study of Style and Gender Differences Using the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English”
This paper explores the occurrences of different from and different than in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English (CSPAE) and shows that different than is much more widely used in formal spoken American English than hitherto considered.