The 1979 Ann Arbor Decision found that a school district failed to identify speakers of this language for appropriate English instruction.
The 1979 Ann Arbor Decision found that a school district failed to identify speakers of this language for appropriate English instruction. A Wolof word meaning "understand" may be the source of the word "dig" in this language. Stative predicates and inherent properties often occur with the null copula in this language. This language's tense-aspect system uses "invariant be" for habituals, and expresses a remote past with "stressed BIN." For 10 points, name this ethnolect of English, in which one could grammatically say "It ain't nobody gonna miss nobody."
The 1979 Ann Arbor Decision found that a school district failed to identify speakers of this language for appropriate English instruction.
African-American Vernacular English [or AAVE; or African American English; or AAE; or Black Vernacular English; or Black English Vernacular; or BVE; or BEV; prompt on "Ebonics"; prompt on "English"]