"should have done"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:07 AM -0500 12/8/05, Orin Hargraves wrote:
>
>My impression is that Brits always prefer some form of "do" as a placeholder
>in this sort of anaphoric construction, just as Americans prefer to leave it
>out -- I also address the matter in my book on Am/Brit differences under
>"Variable Ellipsis of Predicates."
>
>Perhaps there is a slight parallel (of prolixity) in Brits' habit of using
>possessive adj + pronoun in constructions where Americans use only a
>possessive pronoun, i.e., Brit "Your one is bigger than my one" as opposed to
>Yank "yours is bigger than mine."
>
No no--the American version is "mine is bigger than yours".

Larry