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Review published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 9:2 (1994) ► pp.338–344

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Edgar W. Schneider. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and syntactic variables. Edgar W. Schneider. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. xiv, 314 pp. $28.95

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Published online: 1 January 1994
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