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Traute Ewers, The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts. (Topics in English Linguistics, 15.) Mounton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xi, 327. Hb DM 158.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

John Baugh
John Baugh
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School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, jbaugh@leland.stanford.edu
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Language in Society , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 270 - 273
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