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Books Poplack, Shana & Tagliamonte, Sali. 2001. African American English in the Diaspora. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Poplack, Shana (ed). 2000. The English History of African American English. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Articles Howe, Darin & James A. Walker. (2000). Negation and the creole-origins hypothesis: evidence from early African American English. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 109-140. Oxford & Malden: Blackwell Publishers. Howe, Darin. (1997). Negation and the history of African American English. Language Variation and Change 9, 2.267-294. Poplack, Shana. (2006). How English became African American English. The Handbook of the History of English, ed. by A. van Kemenade & B. Los. Oxford: Blackwell. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. (2004). Back to the present: verbal -s in the (African American) English diaspora. The legacy of non-standard colonial English: the study of transported dialects, ed. by R. Hickey, 203-220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Poplack, Shana, Gerard Van Herk & Dawn Harvie. (2002). “Deformed in the dialects”: an alternative history of non-standard English. Alternative histories of English, ed. by R. Trudgill & D. Watts, 87-110. London: Routledge. Reprinted as: Variability in invariant grammars: the Ottawa grammar resource on early variability in English. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 8, 3.223-234. (2002). Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. (2001). African American English in the diaspora. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Poplack, Shana (ed.). (2000). The English history of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Poplack, Shana. (2000). Introduction. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 1-31. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Poplack, Shana, Sali Tagliamonte & Ejike Eze. (2000). Reconstructing the source of Early African American English plural marking: a comparative study of English and creole. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 73-105. Oxford & Malden: Blackwell Publishers. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. (1999). The grammaticization of going to in (African American) English. Language Variation and Change 11, 3.315-342. Poplack, Shana (ed.). (1998). Variationist perspectives on language: the view from 70 Laurier. Special issue of Cahiers linguistiques d'Ottawa 26. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. (1994). -S or nothing: marking the plural in the African American diaspora. American Speech 69, 3.227-259. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. (1991). African American English in the diaspora: evidence from old-line Nova Scotians. Language Variation and Change 3, 3.301-339. Tagliamonte, Sali & Jennifer Smith. (2000). Old was; new ecology: viewing English through the sociolinguistic filter. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 141- 171. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Tagliamonte, Sali & Jennifer Roots of English in the African American diaspora? Smith. (1998). Links & Letters 5: Englishes 5.147-165. Page 2 of 5 Tottie, Gunnel & Dawn Harvie. (2000). It's all relative: relativization strategies in early African American English. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 198- 230. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Van Herk, Gerard. (2000). The question question: auxiliary inversion in early African American English. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 175-197. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Walker, James A. (2005). The ain't constraint: not-contraction in Early African American English. Language Variation and Change 17, 1.1-17. Walker, James A. (2001). Using the past to explain the present: tense and temporal reference in Early African American English. Language Variation and Change 13, 1.1-35. Walker, James A. (2000). Rephrasing the copula: contraction and zero in early African American English. The English history of African American English, ed. by S. Poplack, 35-72. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Walker, James A. (1998). Rephrasing the copula: contracted and zero copula in African Nova Scotian English. Cahiers linguistiques d'Ottawa 26. 85-97

Theses and Memoires Hudson, Alexandra. (2010). Come/Came Variation in English Dialects. M. A. mémoire. University of Ottawa. Smith, Chelsea. (2005). African Nova Scotian -s Deletion in the Plural, Possessive, and Copula. M. A. mémoire. University of Ottawa. Walker, James A. (2000). Present accounted for: Prosody and aspect in Early African American English. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Ottawa. Harvie, Dawn. (1998). Tracking down old relatives: Zero relatives in subject and non-subject function in Early African American English. M.A. thesis. University of Ottawa. Howe, Darin. (1995). Negation in Early African American English. M.A. thesis. University of Ottawa.

Reviews De Fina, Anna. 2003. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Multilingua 22, 1. 107-111. Fasold, Ralph. (2005). Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora.. Language, Vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 504. Fournier, Robert. 2002. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. The Carrier Pidgin, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-3 Gorlach, Manfred. 2003. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Linguistics 41, 6. 1181-1184. Hackert, Stephanie. 2004. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 19:2, pp. 400-406. Kamwangamalu, N.M. 2003. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. World Englishes 22, 1. 75-77. Kaye, A. 2003. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Multilingua 22, 2. 223-224. Shuman, R. Baird. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Choice, 2002 #39 (5). Singler, John. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora.. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 2007 Vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 123-148. Stone, William J. 2002. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora. Linguist List 13. 837. Page 3 of 5 Torres Cacoullos, Rena. 2002. Review of S. Poplack & S. Tagliamonte, 2001, African American English in the Diaspora and of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, #47, pp 76-79.

Baugh, John. 2001. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Language in Society. 30, 2. 311-316. Green, Lisa. 2003. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Journal of Linguistics 7. 103-106 Hazen, Kirk. 2002. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Journal of English Linguistics 30, 3. 284-289. Lipski, John M. 2002. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Language 78, 1. 185-186. McWhorter, John. 2000. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Diachronica 17, 2. 389-432. Nunez-Cedeno, Rafael. Sept 30, 2000. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. El Siglo, D. 7E Rickford, John. 2007. Review of S. Poplack (ed.), 2000, The English History of African American English. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21, 1. 97-155.

Conference Presentations Harvie, Dawn. 1997. Null subject in English. Paper presented at NWAVE 26, Université Laval. Harvie, Dawn. 2001. Null subject in African Nova Scotian English. Paper presented at NWAV 30, North Carolina State University. Harvie, Dawn & Gunnel Tottie. 1998. It's all relative: relativization strategies in African American English. Paper presented at CLA, University of Ottawa. Howe, Darin. 1995. Negative concord in early Black English. Paper presented at NWAVE 24, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Howe, Darin. 1997. Negation and the history of African American English. Paper presented at the Symposium on Objectivity and Commitment in the Study of Early Black English, NWAVE 26, Université Laval. (Presented by James A. Walker). Meechan, Marjory & James A. Walker. 1998. The decreolization of Canadian English: copula contraction and prosody. Paper presented at CLA, University of Ottawa. Poplack, Shana, William Labov & Maciej Baranowski. 2004. New light on the expatriate southern community. Paper presented at LAVIS (Language Variety in the South) III, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. 1992. Plural marking in early Black English. Paper presented at CLA, University of Prince Edward Island. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. 1992. -S or nothing: marking the plural in the African American diaspora. Paper presented at NWAVE 21, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Poplack, Shana & Sali Tagliamonte. 1995. It's black and white: the future of English in rural Nova Scotia. Paper presented at NWAVE 24, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Tagliamonte, Sali. 1997. Change and continuity in the PRESENT PERFECT: the view from an enclave. Paper presented at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, Germany. Tagliamonte, Sali. 1997. Ain't no suffix like -s. Paper presented at the Symposium on Objectivity and Commitment in the Study of Early Black English, NWAVE 26, Université Laval. Page 4 of 5 Tagliamonte, Sali & Shana Poplack. 1991. Black English in Nova Scotia: the quest for the vernacular. Paper presented at APLA XV, University College of Cape-Breton. Tagliamonte, Sali & Shana Poplack. 1991. The unmarked verb: testing the creole hypothesis. Paper presented at NWAVE 20, Georgetown University. Tagliamonte, Sali & Shana Poplack. 1992. Linguistic characteristics of Afro-Nova Scotian isolates. Paper presented at SPCL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tagliamonte, Sali & Shana Poplack. 1993. “They talks with grammar, with -s” phono-prosodic vs. morpho-syntactic influences on word-final -s variability in African Nova Scotian English. Paper presented at NWAVE 22, University of Ottawa. Tagliamonte, Sali & Shana Poplack. 1995. The synchrony of obsolescence: evidence from the PERFECT in African Nova Scotian English. Paper presented at ADS, Chicago. Van Herk, Gerard. 1998. Inversion in Early AAVE question formation. Paper presented at SPCL, New York. Van Herk, Gerard. 1998. Auxiliary verbs in early African American Vernacular English questions. Non-inversion, deletion, and inherent variability. Paper presented at CLA, University of Ottawa. Van Herk, Gerard. 1998. Don't know much about history: letting the data set the agenda in the origins- of-AAVE debate. Paper presented at NWAVE 27, University of Georgia, Athens. Van Herk, Gerard. 2002. Letter perfect: genre and the present perfect in Early African American English. Paper presented at NWAV 31, Stanford University. Van Herk, Gerard. 2004. Regional variation in 19th-century African American English. Paper presented at Language Variety in the South (LAVIS III), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Van Herk, Gerard. 2004. Getting past participles to function: /t,d/ in Early African American English (AAE). Paper presented at NWAV 33, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Van Herk, Gerard. 2005. Slave vs. free: linguistic consequences? Paper presented at CLA, University of Western Ontario, London. Walker, James A. 1995. The (r)-ful truth about African Nova Scotian English. Paper presented at NWAVE 24, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Walker, James A. 1997. Method in the madness of the copula. Paper presented at the Symposium on Objectivity and Commitment in the Study of Early Black English, NWAVE 26, Université Laval. Walker, James A. 1997. Rephrasing the copula: contracted and zero copula in African Nova Scotian English. Paper presented at NWAVE 26, Université Laval. Walker, James A. 1998. Beyond zero copula: evidence from early African American English. Paper presented at SPCL, New York, NY. Walker, James A. 1999. Prosodic variation and change in English auxiliaries. Workshop on “Change in prosodic systems” at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (SGfS), Universität Konstanz, Germany. Walker, James A. 1999. Using the past to explain the present: tense and temporal reference in Early African American English. Paper presented at the Methods in Dialectology X, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Walker, James A. 1999. “The Americans are Smart Industours hardy people & fears Nothing” verbal -s on the eve of the American Revolution. Special session on accountability in reconstructing verbal -s presented at Methods in Dialectology X, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Walker, James A. 1999. The progressive's progress: a view from the present in Early African American English. Paper presented at NWAVE 28, University of Toronto. Walker, James A. 2001. Ain't misbehavin'? Not-contraction in Early African American English. Paper presented at ADS, Washington, D.C. Page 5 of 5 Walker, James A. 2001. The ain't constraint and Early African American English. Paper presented at the Third U.K. Language Variation and Change Conference, University of York. Walker, James A. 2001. Before you say -s: grammatical and prosodic constraints in Early African American English. Paper presented at NWAV 30, North Carolina State University. Walker, James A. 2003. Contextualizing variable concord: evidence from Early African American English. Paper presented at the University of Ulster. Walker, James A. & Gerard Van Herk. 2002. “We Labors under a great deal of disadvantiges” verbal - s in Early African American English. Paper presented at CLA, University of Toronto.