Unmarked Tense in American Indian English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8727892 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walt Wolfram (0000-0002-5386-7754, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-31 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/454992 |
| OpenAlex | W2321295176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 1 |
A MONG THE FEATURES characterizing varieties identified as AMERICAN INDIAN ENGLISH (AIE), none has received more attention than unmarked tense. Forms such as Last year we go to the fiesta corresponding to standard English Last year we went to the fiesta are often cited as one of the recurring grammatical patterns highlighting these varieties (Drechsel 1976, p. 77). The pattern demonstrates considerable historical continuity, with attestations recorded for earlier as well as present-day versions of AIE. Thus, Leechman and Hall (1955) and Dillard (1975) give a number of attestations of unmarked past tense forms dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Malancon and Malancon (1977, p. 147) extend such examples by documenting unmarked past tense forms of different language groups present at the Haskell Institute at the beginning of this century. Cook (1973) updates this documentation by citing examples from representative groups in the Southwest, including Apache, Pima, Mohave, Paiute, Papago, Shoshone, and Hualapai. Despite the fact that unmarked past forms have been noted quite frequently in varieties of AIE, observations have typically been restricted to the citation of particular examples, and there exists no detailed descriptive investigation of this phenomenon. Admittedly, any serious descriptive investigation of unmarked past tense is immediately confronted with the complexities involved in the English tense-aspect system, particularly as compared with the potential source-language systems. As Silverstein observes (1973, p. 84)
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| Citations per year | 0.24 |
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| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |