This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organised, it describes patte

This is the first book to present an in-depth examination and comparison of grammatical phenomena in both Black English and New World English-lexicon Creoles. T

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This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the fiel

This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, subl