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Negative Attraction and Negative Concord in English Grammar

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Labov, William – Language, 1972

Preliminary version of this paper was given at the 1968 winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, based upon work supported by the Office of Education as a Cooperative Research Project. (VM)

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, English

Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

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Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995

This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis