Rewriting the past: Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence

Van Herk, Gerard; Poplack, Shana

doi:10.1075/jpcl.18.2.03her

Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 18:2 (2003) ► pp.231–266

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Rewriting the past

Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence

Gerard Van Herk | University of Ottawa

Shana Poplack | University of Ottawa

Published online: 11 November 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.18.2.03her

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