Has It Ever Been "Perfect"? [electronic resource] : Uncovering the Grammar of Early Black English / Sali Tagliamonte.

An analysis of perfect verb forms in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) looks at the distribution of forms by semantic function and co-occurrence patterns in Samana English and ex-slave recordings. Results suggest that despite the overall rarity of this category in the general realm of past...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Tagliamonte, Sali
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Contrastive Linguistics. Diachronic Linguistics. English. Foreign Countries. Grammar. Language Patterns. Language Research. Linguistic Theory. Semantics. Standard Spoken Usage. Tenses (Grammar) Verbs.