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LINGUIST List 7. 1048: aks and akst in AAVE Specialists in AAVE agree that current African Americans who use aks have inherited this as the base form of the verb Some further comments came from Raj Mesthrie at the University of Cape Town: Aks is I believe alive and well in parts of Britain and elsewhere in the world (e g my native dialect of South African Indian English, where it co
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Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona I registered for Chomsky's course and also for the course in quantum mechanics required of physics majors, which happened to meet at the same time I began the semester going to each course on alternate days, but quickly figured out that this wasn't going to work I dropped the physics course, and became a humanities and science major, combining philosophy and mathematics At the end of the
LINGUIST List 23. 3439: Review: Sociolinguistics: Lippi-Green (2011) Here,Lippi-Green argues that assimilation via accent reduction is commonly perceivedto be the price of success in America (see also Chapters 9 and 12 for example) Similarly, Chapter 10's focus on AAVE (African American Vernacular English), or"Black language" (p 182) argues that the issues surrounding this variety of USEnglish are historically
LINGUIST List 13. 2343: Historical Linguistics: Wolfram Thomas (2002) Copula absence is an oft-cited structure in AAVE and Wolfram and Thomas argue that while there may be a number of influences on the historical development of this structure, including a creole predecessor and independent development, it developed exclusively in African American English