Transitive marking in contact Englishes

Australian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-80

  Meyerhoff, Miriam ^a  

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EID: 84937272724     PISSN: 07268602     EISSN: 14692996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07268609608599531     Document Type: Article

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36. This paper has benefitted from the comments and criticisms of Gillian Sankoff, Gregory Guy, Terry Crowley and John Lynch. I am also grateful to Dorothy Jauncey, Janet Holmes, Ann Chowning, Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Jim McCloskey, Kenjirô Matsuda, Anthony Aristar, Laura Siegel and David Embick for comments and questions that have focused my thinking at crucial points, also to the audience in the Victoria University of Wellington, Department of Linguistics seminar series for their feedback. None of the above necessarily agree with the analysis presented here, nor should they be held accountable for its flaws.