Variation in Tense-aspect Modality in Liberian English

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University of California, Los Angeles, 1984 - Creole dialects, English - 852 pages

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The Creole Continuum
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The Distribution of Liberias NigerCongo Languages
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acrolectal Aesop African argues AUX's basilectal speakers Bettee Bickerton Bold Dollar clauses coast completive continuum copulas corpus creole prototype discussion distinction example feni Freetown Friar Tuck Gedeh Childminder Gedeh Gold Miner Gedeh Soldier Ghana Steward goen Grebo Guyanese Creole illustrates immediate irrealis inflection irrealis irrealis forms irrealis marker iterative kƐn Klao komen Krio Kru languages Kru Pidgin English Liberian English Lofa basilect Lofa Laborer Lofa Overseer Lofa Shopkeeper Lofa Tailor Lofa Tapper main verb Mande Mande languages McCoard's mesolect Monrovia Nimba Cook Nimba Gardener Nimba Vendor Nimba Watchman non-past occur Painter past counterfactuals past irrealis past punctual verbs perfect pipo present procedural texts PUNCT Robertsport semantic sentence Settler Carolina Settler Peken Settler Slim Seychellois Creole Shorty Sierra Leone Singler speech Standard English statives strong verbs suffix Table temporal tense tokens Western education yustu

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TitleVariation in Tense-aspect Modality in Liberian English
AuthorJohn Victor Singler
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of California, Los Angeles, 1984
Length852 pages
  
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