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Donahue, Thomas S. – 1980
The loss of the copula in Black English Vernacular (BEV) is demonstrably traceable to norms of pidginization that have their roots in West African languages and in contact among those languages. An extensive examination of the verb systems of a number of West African languages reveals that in every case a variety of verbal forms serves the many…
Descriptors: African History, African Languages, Black Dialects, Descriptive Linguistics
