A quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of Bahamian copula absence: Morphosyntactic evidence from Abaco Island, the Bahamas

Reaser, Jeffrey

doi:10.1075/jpcl.19.1.02rea

Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 19:1 (2004) ► pp.1–40

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A quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of Bahamian copula absence

Morphosyntactic evidence from Abaco Island, the Bahamas

Jeffrey Reaser

Published online: 19 May 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.19.1.02rea

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