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Event Arguments and 'Be' in Child African American English (with Toya A. Wyatt and Qiuana Lopez), University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2007)

This paper builds on previous sociolinguistic descriptions of the distribution of the copula and auxiliary...

 

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The Acquisition Path for Tense-Aspect: Remote Past and Habitual in Child African American English (with Thomas Roeper), Research on the acquisition of AAE by children (2007)
 

Negative Inversion and Negative Focus in African American English, New York University Department of Linguistics Colloquium (2007)
 

NPs in Aspectual Be Constructions, Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Account (2007)

This paper examines indefinite and bare plural NPs in aspectual be constructions in African American...

 

Syntactic Variation, Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications. (2007)

This chapter considers the syntax of dialects of English from a view that incorporates issues...