... the Rat 1 76 GRITS (Grammatical Investigation of TexasSpeech) 112, 113, 166 grits 178Gulf Coastal Southern 7Gulf Plains Interior Southern 7Gullah 11, 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 ,70, 72, 73, 76, 78, 84,110, ... 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 60 , 61 , 62 indirectness 5, 191, 193, 200Indo-European 6 in ectional typological structure 8informants 21, 22, 40, 47, 53, 83, 92, 108, 121,122, 160 , 161 , 162 , 164 , 166 , 177Inland ... Valley 6 Greek 8Green, Elaine W. 144Indexa+verb+ing 2, 59, 60 , 61 AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) 2, 3, 11, 12, 19, 32, 38, 42, 43, 47, 49, 52,53, 55, 58, 60 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 ,...