| African-American language use: Ideology and so-called obscenity AK Spears African-American English, 226-250, 2013 | 200 | 2013 |
| Race and ideology: Language, symbolism, and popular culture AK Spears Wayne State University Press, 1999 | 125 | 1999 |
| African American communicative practices: Performativity, semantic license and augmentation AK Spears Talkin Black talk: Language, education, and social change, 100-111, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Pidgins/creoles and african american english AK Spears The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, 512-542, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| On shallow grammar: African American English and the critique of exceptionalism AK Spears The languages of Africa and the diaspora: Educating for language awareness …, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| Introduction: Language and white supremacy KA Smalls, AK Spears, J Rosa Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31 (2), 152-156, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Bare nouns in African American English (AAE) AK Spears Creole Language Library 31, 421, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Racism, colorism, and language within their macro contexts AK Spears The Oxford handbook of language and race, 47-67, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| White supremacy and antiblackness: theory and lived experience AK Spears Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31 (2), 157-179, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Unstressed been: Past and Present in African American English AK Spears American Speech 92 (2), 151-175, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Introduction: The Haitian Creole language A Spears The Haitian Creole language, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| Complements of significant-class predicates: A study in the semantics of complementation AK Spears Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 9 (1 …, 1973 | 18 | 1973 |
| Reassessing the status of Black English AK Spears Language in Society 21 (4), 675-682, 1992 | 15 | 1992 |
| Foregrounding and backgrounding in Haitian Creole discourse AK Spears Byrne, Francis & Donald Winford (Hgg.): Focus and Grammatical Relations in …, 1993 | 14 | 1993 |
| Ebonics and African American English AK Spears Ebonics and language education, 235-247, 2001 | 13 | 2001 |
| Donald Winford, eds. 1997 AK Spears The structure and status of pidgins and creoles, including selected papers …, 0 | 13 | |
| Introduction: Toward black linguistics S Makoni, G Smitherman, AF Ball, AK Spears Black linguistics: Language, society, and politics in Africa and the …, 2003 | 12 | 2003 |
| Languages and dialects in the US M Di Paolo, AK Spears New York: Routledge, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Where did Haitian Creole come from? A discussion of Hazaël-Massieux’s and Baker’s papers AK Spears Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties, 156-166, 1993 | 11 | 1993 |
| The grammaticalization of disapproval in Black American English AK Spears CUNYForum: Papers in Linguistics 15 (1), 30-44, 1990 | 10 | 1990 |
Marianna Di PaoloAssociate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of UtahVerified email at anthro.utah.edu
