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Review published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 9:1 (1994) ► pp.192–198

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Walter F. Edwards & Donald Winford. Verb phrase patterns in Black English and creole. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 325 pp. Cloth. $29.95

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 | Temple University
Published online: 1 January 1994
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