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Verb phrase patterns in Black English and Creole

Title
  1. Verb phrase patterns in Black English and Creole / edited by Walter F. Edwards and Donald Winford.
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  1. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Edwards, Walter F., 1940-
  2. Winford, Donald.
Description
  1. 325 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Black English > Verb phrase
  2. Creole dialects, English > Verb phrase
  3. Black English > Grammar, Comparative > Creole dialects
  4. Creole dialects > Grammar, Comparative > Black English
  5. English language > Verb phrase
  6. Werkwoorden
  7. Engelse creooltalen
  8. Black English
  9. Verbalphrase
  10. Aufsatzsammlung
  11. Black English
Contents
  1. General introduction : linguistic relations between Black English and Caribbean Creoles / Walter F. Edwards -- Black English : introduction / Walter F. Edwards -- A reexamination of the Black English copula / John Baugh -- The relationship of White Southern speech to vernacular Black English / Walt Wolfram -- The use of invariant "be" with verbal predicates in BEV / John Myhill -- Verbal patterns of Black and White speakers of coastal South Carolina / Patrica C. Nichols -- Copula variation in Liberian settler English and American Black English / John Victor Singler -- Multiple modals in United States Black English : synchronic and diachronic aspects / Ronald R. Butters -- Creole : introduction / Donald Winford.
  2. The concept "do" in English and English-Lexicon Creole / Dennis R. Craig -- On the infinitive in Gullah / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Modality in Jamaican Creole / Pauline Christie -- A comparative description of Guyanese Creole and Black English preverbal aspect marker "don" / Walter F. Edwards -- The passive in Caribbean English Creole / Donald Winford -- Focus and assertion in Jamaican and Barbadian speech / Peter Roberts -- Contemporary source comparison as a critical window on the Afro-American linguistic past / John R. Rickford.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.