A reanalysis of DeCamp’s texts: Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English

Rickford, John R.

doi:10.1075/cilt.127.22ric

In:Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 127] 1996
► pp. 357–372

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Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English

A reanalysis of DeCamp’s texts

John R. Rickford

Published online: 19 August 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.127.22ric

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