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The Emergence of Creole Subject-Verb Agreement and the Licensing of Null Subjects.
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Meyerhoff, Miriam – Language Variation and Change, 2000
Attempts to resolve an outstanding question as to the most appropriate structural description of the relationship between subject and verb in Bislama (a Melanesian creole spoken in Vanuatu), discusses what the implications of this analysis might be for a Creole ontogeny, and attempts to unify this analysis to the verb system with the distribution…
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Variation
On Resolving Disagreement: Linguistic Theory and Variation--"There's Bridges."
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Meechan, Marjory; Foley, Michele – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using variationist methodology, this study analyzed natural speech data from 31 speakers of standard Canadian English and found an overwhelming preference for singular agreement in existentials. Contrary to predictions, this was not linked to a determiner-based structural distinction but rather to the form of the copula and the speaker's level of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Variation