There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English.

Poplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali

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ERIC Number: EJ423073

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Publication Date: 1989

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There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English.

Poplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali

Language Variation and Change, v1 n1 p47-84 1989

An analysis of the linguistic and social contexts of the occurrence of verbal "-s" marking in early Black English, within a historical and comparative perspective, shows that both third person singular and nonconcord "-s" are subject to regular, parallel environmental conditioning. (68 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Variation, Multivariate Analysis, Oral Language, Phonology, Social Environment, Tenses (Grammar)

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Language: English

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