Variation in Some Southern Black Idiolects [microform] : Indirect Question Formation / Ronald R. Butters.

Earlier sociolinguistic studies distinguish between Standard English and Black English with respect to indirect question formation. Standard English typically does not invert the tense-marker "do" in the imbedded question ("Ask John if he played basketball today") while Black Eng...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Butters, Ronald R.
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1975.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Language Patterns. Language Styles. Nonstandard Dialects. Sentence Structure. Sociolinguistics. Standard Spoken Usage.