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Statistics on Morphological Irregularity in Spanish Verb Tenses.
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Teschner, Richard V.; Munoz, Frank – Hispania, 1984
Provides representative statistics concerning the degree and rank-ordering of irregularity among verb tenses of Spanish. Indicates that the present is the most morphologically irregular of all Spanish tenses. The least irregular tense is the imperfect. (SL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
Defining the Envelope of Linguistic Variation: The Case of "Don't Count" Forms in the Copula Analysis of African American Vernacular English.
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Blake, Renee – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Proposes a set of copula forms that should be set aside from variable analysis as instances of "don't count" (DC) forms to allow for systematic comparisons among studies of the English language. Reviews the major alternative descriptions of DC copula cases in the literature and analyzes the behavior of the traditional DC categories. (29…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)