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The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Journal of English Linguistics

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First published online December, 1999

The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Volume 27, Issue 4

https://doi.org/10.1177/00754249922004796

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Bybee, J. L. , R. D. Perkins , and W. Pagliuca . 1994. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of theWorld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Poplack, S. , and S. Tagliamonte . Forthcoming. African American English in the Diaspora: Tense and Aspect. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

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