Using the Past To Explain the Present: Tense and Temporal Reference in Early African American English.

Walker, James A.

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ERIC Number: EJ632712

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Publication Date: 2001

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Using the Past To Explain the Present: Tense and Temporal Reference in Early African American English.

Walker, James A.

Language Variation and Change, v13 n1 p1-35 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), Nonstandard Dialects, Semantics, Syntax, Tenses (Grammar)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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