Ebonics as a systematic and rule-governed language

English Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 120-141

  Honda, Masaru ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

African languages; copula absence; Ebonics; parametric variations; syntactic characterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937343101     PISSN: 09183701     EISSN: 18843107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9793/elsj1984.18.120     Document Type: Article

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