Read and study Lerer's Chapter 7.
Lerer has a good, clear, and short discussion of the GVS. The tables that he reproduces are essentially like those in van Gelderen and elsewhere. Reading Lerer's account will further help you to learn the GVS.
Drout has a very interesting discussion of why the GVS might have taken place.
Written Assignment: Write 300 words summarizing the different theories Drout discusses of why the GVS occurred.
Please go back to Drout, Lecture 1, and recall what Drout had to say there about the evolution of Hawaiian Creole. This may be very helpful in explaining developments like the GVS
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