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Download full textPfaff, Carol W. – 1972
During the past fifteen years, a variety of linguistic analyses of the tense and aspect systems of dialects of English has been conducted. These analyses were bounded by several analytic dimensions. This paper treats three of these dimensions and discusses their interrelationships and implications in relation to two dialects--Black English and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Nonstandard Dialects, North American English
