The dative alternation in African American English: Researching syntactic variation and change across sociolinguistic datasets

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-244

  Kendall, Tyler ^a   Bresnan, Joan ^b   Van Herk, Gerard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

African American English; dative alternation; sociolinguistics; syntactic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052117845     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2011.011     Document Type: Article

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