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Peer reviewedMontgomery, Michael; And Others – Language Variation and Change, 1993
An analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal "-s" marking that parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. (MDM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
