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Publication details [#11649]
Tagliamonte, Sali A. 1997. Obsolescence in the English Perfect? Evidence from Samaná English. American Speech 72 (1) : 33–68. 36 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN
0003-1283
Annotation
Observing that Samaná English (Dominican Republic) features earlier varieties of English, the author argues that Samaná English semantically matches the distribution of present perfect forms in present-day Standard English, while yet having retained the morphology of an older version of the English present perfect system.