[Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"

[Shapiro, Fred]

AAVE (OED 1993)

1991 John R. Rickford et al. in Language Variation and Change 3: 103

In this article, we reopen the analysis of ... variation between full, contracted, and zero forms of inflected copula and auxiliary be ... in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Fred Shapiro

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