Negation and the history of African American English

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-294

  Howe, Darin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0954394500001903     Document Type: Article

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