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Publication details [#5853]

Labov, William. 1972. Negative attraction and negative concord. In Labov, William, ed. Language in the inner city: Studies in the black English vernacular. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 130–196.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

negative attraction | negative concord

Language as a subject

English, Black

Annotation

L. attempts to solve the semantic and grammatical problems posed by Black English sentences such as 'It ain't no cat can't get in no coop', combining the abstract analysis of intuitive data with naturalistic observation of language in use.