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Peer reviewedSharma, Devyani – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Examines a case of dialectal variation in a subpart of the tense-modality aspect system of Indian English. Focuses on functions associated with an existing form: the use of the pluperfect "had" + V-"ed" construction. Contrasts this usage with that of British and American English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Usage
