[Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"

[Ben Zimmer]

Larry shared this citation when we had a thread on "AAVE" last year.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2024-May/165350.html

--bgz

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM Shapiro, Fred <
00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> 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).
>
>

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