The Past Perfective and Present Perfect in African-American English

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2005, Pages 217-232

  Michael Terry, J ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Author keywords

African American English; Aspect; Morphology; Semantics; Tense

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145165429     PISSN: 18730043     EISSN: 22151788     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3232-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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