This paper is a comparative and historical study of the grammatical status of auxiliary ain‘t in African-American English (AAE). Drawing on the representation of AAE speakers in works of fiction from the 19th century and present-day, the paper confirms that the broad range of uses of auxiliary… read more
While existing literature on cause frequently cites the negative meaning associated with that lexeme, i.e. the fact that cause tends to appear with a negative outcome, e.g. cause an accident, really no scholar has studied in any detail the historical development of the phenomenon. In order to… read more