Verb phrase patterns in Black English and Creole / edited by Walter F. Edwards and Donald Winford.
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Table of Contents:
- General introduction : linguistic relations between Black English and Caribbean Creoles / Walter F. Edwards
- Black English : introduction / Walter F. Edwards
- A reexamination of the Black English copula / John Baugh
- The relationship of White Southern speech to vernacular Black English / Walt Wolfram
- The use of invariant "be" with verbal predicates in BEV / John Myhill
- Verbal patterns of Black and White speakers of coastal South Carolina / Patrica C. Nichols
- Copula variation in Liberian settler English and American Black English / John Victor Singler
- Multiple modals in United States Black English : synchronic and diachronic aspects / Ronald R. Butters
- Creole : introduction / Donald Winford.
- The concept "do" in English and English-Lexicon Creole / Dennis R. Craig
- On the infinitive in Gullah / Salikoko S. Mufwene
- Modality in Jamaican Creole / Pauline Christie
- A comparative description of Guyanese Creole and Black English preverbal aspect marker "don" / Walter F. Edwards
- The passive in Caribbean English Creole / Donald Winford
- Focus and assertion in Jamaican and Barbadian speech / Peter Roberts
- Contemporary source comparison as a critical window on the Afro-American linguistic past / John R. Rickford.