Independent clauses that are semantically related to each other tend to become structurally
connected over time. A coordinator such as and can be used to connect two independent …

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-
American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main …

This contribution to the study of African-American vernacular English (AAVE) is an
interpretation of the special linguistic features of this dialect in the light of its co-existence …

Growing evidence suggests that syntactic processing may be guided in part by expectations
about the statistics of the input that comprehenders have encountered; however, these …

In this paper, we analyze double modal use in American English based on a multi-billion-
word corpus of geolocated posts from the social media platform Twitter. We identify and map …

This article proposes a feature-geometric analysis of the interpretable features of Infl, using
MINIMALIST syntax and DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY. A small universal set of …

A long-standing premise of American dialectology is that American regional dialects are
largely a consequence of settlement history and were formed by the time of the American …

BEGINNING WITH LABOV ET AL.(1968), nearly twenty recent stud multiple modals (MMs),
the combination of modal verbs like might could, have addressed important questions about …

The migration of people to the Sunbelt in the United States constitutes a major demographic
shift, but has received little attention from language variationists. In Texas, this migration has …

This paper discusses a phenomenon that we propose to call “modal concord”. We speak of
modal concord if the combination of a modal adverb with a modal auxiliary seems to be …