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Peer reviewedWalker, James A. – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Reconstructs the present temporal reference system of Early African American English by investigating the aspectual conditioning of a morphosyntactic construction within the domain of present temporal reference in three representative varieties. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedCuly, Christopher – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Recipes exhibit a phenomenon nonexistent in other commonly studied varieties, (for example, conversational discourse), namely, zero anaphors as direct objects. This article examines this phenomenon and explores its consequences for linguistic theory. Results reveal that stylistic, semantic, and discourse factors are the most important in the…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Usage, Language Variation
