Review published In:
Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesVol. 9:2 (1994) ► pp.338–344
Book review
. American Earlier Black English: Morphological and syntactic variables Edgar W. Schneider. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. xiv, 314 pp. $28.95
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