"The following study presents a syntactic analysis of African American relative clause constructions. Relative clauses in African American English (henceforth African American) are distinct from those used in Standard English. The purpose of this study is to give a description of the observed patterns and to discover the principles at work, thus explaining why the patterns in African American are distinct from those that occur in Standard English. This project investigates the occurrence of zero relative pronouns in subject relatives and appositive relatives in African American relative clause constructions."--P. 1.
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