To be or not to be: an insight into the relationship between standard English and non-standard varieties of English

This paper has two objectives; firstly, to contribute to research on the variation between full and contracted forms of inflected copula/auxiliary be in conversations among native speakers of English and secondly to test whether generalities and inferences made in the late 1960s to 1980s by Labov, t...

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Main Author: Hafriza Burhanudeen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2004
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/737/
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http://journalarticle.ukm.my/737/1/GemaVol4.2.2004No1.pdf