Observations on variability in the verb phrase in aboriginal English

Australian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-165

  Malcolm, Ian G ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84937275312     PISSN: 07268602     EISSN: 14692996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07268609608599536     Document Type: Article

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22. The research on which this paper is based was carried out with the assistance of an Education Research Development Committee grant to Dr Susan Kaldor and the author. Grateful acknowledgment is made of Dr Kaldor's central role in the early conceptualisation and methodological direction of the research. The writing of this paper was assisted by the involvement of research assistant Scott Brandreth. It has also benefited from the helpful comments of Pender Pedler, Susan Kaldor, Graham McKay and two anonymous reviewers. Some of the material in this paper formed part of a presentation by the author and Dr S. Kaldor to a Child Literacy and ESL Research Seminar of the NLLIA, Perth, in 1993. The paper in its present form is based on a presentation made by the author to the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Australian National University, Canberra 24–27 September, 1995.