The language of transported Londoners: Third-person-singular present-tense markers in depositions from Virginia and the Bermudas, 1607–1624

Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 158-171

  Wright, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511486920.007     Document Type: Chapter

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