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Peer reviewedWalker, James A. – Language Variation and Change, 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)
Peer reviewedCuly, Christopher – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Recipes exhibit a phenomenon nonexistent in other commonly studied varieties, (for example, conversational discourse), namely, zero anaphors as direct objects. This article examines this phenomenon and explores its consequences for linguistic theory. Results reveal that stylistic, semantic, and discourse factors are the most important in the…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Usage, Language Variation
Peer reviewedBlake, 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)
