Lisa Green is Associate Professor of Linguistics and the founding director of the Center for the Study of African American Language at the University of Massachusetts. Her previous publications include African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
1. Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context
2. Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, patterns and systems
3. System of tense-aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual
4. System of tense-aspect marking 2: past time
5. Negation: focus on negative concord
6. Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration
7. Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting
8. The D.I.R.E.C.T. model: linking linguistic description and education.
1. Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context; 2. Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, patterns and systems; 3. System of tense-aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual; 4. System of tense-aspect marking 2: past time; 5. Negation: focus on negative concord; 6. Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration; 7. Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting; 8. The D.I.R.E.C.T. model: linking linguistic description and education.
