There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English.

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Main Authors:	Poplack, Shana, Tagliamonte, Sali
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	1988
Subjects:	Black Dialects Comparative Analysis Diachronic Linguistics English Foreign Countries Language Research Linguistic Theory Phonology Tenses (Grammar) Verbs
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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