Plural in the African- American Diaspora
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چکیده
T LNDERLXNG CATEGORY OF PLURAL, along with its morphological expression by way of the suffix -s, has been considered a robust, if variable, feature of African-American English grammar at least since Harrison (1884) observed that "the Negro forms the plural regularly by addition of s or 2." (225). Subsequent empirical research on different varieties of contemporary African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) has strongly endorsed this claim (Labov et al. 1968, 161; Wolfram 1969, 143; Kessler 1972), largely on the basis of the consistent independent finding that the plural suffix is only rarely absent in different corpora, in striking contrast to the homophonous possessive and third singular morphemes. We were thus intrigued when examination of three varieties of "early" black English-Samanii English, the Ex-Slave Recordings, and African Nova Scotian English-revealed that the -s suffix was often missing from nouns with plural reference, as (1) exemplifies:'
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