Chris Collins
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chris Collins is involved.
Articles
2006 A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 203–224 | Chapter
In this paper, I describe the use of agentive be (‘If you don’t be careful, you will be caught’) in informal American English. I will show that agentive be has largely the same syntactic behavior as habitual be in AAVE (African American Vernacular English). Based on these similarities, I will… read more
