Language Variation and Change: Grammatical Features of English Varieties
Language Variation and Change: Grammatical Features of English Varieties

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the two most representative varieties of the English language: American English (AmE) and British English (BrE), emphasizing the variation in grammatical patterns and syntactic constructions, with reference to the (native) use of the present progressive. The aim is to explore this challenging topic for variational linguistics in order to prove that it can open up new perspectives of interpretation for less studied English varieties (such as, for example, the non-native use of the progressive from the perspective of language change in European English, discussed in the second part of this article).

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