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Britain, David – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2002
Reports an apparent time survey of the Fenland dialect of Eastern England that provides an example of a range of dialect contact processes reconfiguring variable patterns of past tense "be." (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Tenses (Grammar), Verbs