Gerard Van Herk

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerard Van Herk is involved.

Childs, Becky and Gerard Van Herk 2010 Chapter 6. Breaking old habits: Syntactic constraints underlying habitual effects in Newfoundland English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 81–93 | Article

Herk, Gerard Van 2010 Chapter 4. Aspect and the English Present Perfect: What can be coded? Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 49–64 | Article

Herk, Gerard Van 2008 Letter Perfect: The Present Perfect in early African American correspondence English World-Wide 29:1, pp. 45–69 | Article

This paper uses a multivariate analysis of 19th-century letters by semi-literate African American settlers in Liberia to investigate the frequency and distribution of the present perfect (PP) in earlier African American English (AAE). Despite descriptions elsewhere of the PP as marginal to AAE, it… read more

Herk, Gerard Van 2007 Review of Miethaner (2005): I can look through muddy water: Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR) English World-Wide 28:2, pp. 205–209 | Review

Herk, Gerard Van 2003 Barbadian lects: Beyond Meso Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 241–264 | Article

Herk, Gerard Van and Shana Poplack 2003 Rewriting the past: Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:2, pp. 231–266 | Article