For Tuesday 3/23, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format):
Martin, Stefan and Walt Wolfram. 1998. The sentence in African-American Vernacular English. In African-American English: Structure, history, and use, S. Mufwene et al. (eds), 11-36. London: Routledge.
Pay particular attention to the discussion of negative concord and negative inversion on pgs. Â 17-27. Â (But do read the whole paper–it’s not too long, and the discussion isn’t very technical, so it should go by fairly quickly.)