Coppock, Elizabeth; Brenier, Jason; Staum, Laura; Michaelis, Laura (February 10, 2006). ""The thing is, is" Is No Mere Disfluency"(PDF). Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California: Sheridan Books. pp. 85–96. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
Howe 1990. Source for most of the Haitian data in this article; for more details on syntactic conditions as well as Haitian-specific copula constructions, like se kouri m ap kouri (It's run I progressive run; "I'm really running!"), see the grammar sketch in this publication. Howe, Catherine; Desmarattes, Jean Lionel (1990). Haitian Creole Newspaper Reader. Dunwoody Press. p. 232. ISBN978-0-931745-59-1.
Butler, C.S. (2003). Structure and Function: A Guide to the Three Major Structural-Functional Theories. Studies in Language Companion Series. Vol. 63. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 425–6. doi:10.1075/slcs.63. ISBN9789027296535.
Coppock, Elizabeth; Brenier, Jason; Staum, Laura; Michaelis, Laura (February 10, 2006). ""The thing is, is" Is No Mere Disfluency"(PDF). Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California: Sheridan Books. pp. 85–96. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 16, 2018.