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Name: James  Anthony Walker
Institution: York University
Email: click here to access email
Homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/jamesw
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Specialty: Language variation and change
Postal Address: Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
4700 Keele St.
Toronto,  Canada    M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-2100 x33792
Fax: 416-736-5483
Selected Publications: ''Using the past to explain the present: Tense and temporal reference in Early African American English.'' Language Variation and Change 13(1): 1-35. 2001.
''Rephrasing the copula: Contraction and zero in Early African American English.'' In S. Poplack (ed.), The English History of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell, 35-72.
Courses Taught:

Language in its Social Context
Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change

Academic Paper Abstract: The ain't constraint: Not-contraction in early African American English
S marks the spot? Regional variation and early African American

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