Verbal — S Inflection in Early Black English: There’s No Tense Like the Present

Poplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali A.

doi:10.1075/cll.8.13pop

In:The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
[Creole Language Library 8] 1991
► pp. 275–326

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There’s No Tense Like the Present

Verbal — S Inflection in Early Black English

Shana Poplack

Sali A. Tagliamonte

Published online: 10 April 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.8.13pop

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