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The historical evolution of earlier African American English : an empirical comparison of early sources / by Alexander Kautzsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kautzsch, Alexander, 1969-2018, author.
- Series:
- Topics in English linguistics ; 38.
- Topics in English linguistics ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Languages--Sources.
- African Americans.
- English language--United States--Foreign elements--African--Sources.
- English language.
- English language--United States--History--Sources.
- African languages--Influence on English--Sources.
- African languages.
- Black English--Sources.
- Black English.
- Americanisms--Sources.
- Americanisms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920. By means of detailed quantitative analyses, three linguistic features (negation patterns, copula usage, and relative marker choice) are interpreted along the lines of temporal change, regional diversity, and variation across gender. Additionally, some 300 non-standard letters written by African Americans in the 19th century are compared to the main corpus in order to identify differences between speech and writing.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Data and methods
- Chapter 3. Negation patterns in Earlier AAE
- Chapter 4. The copula in Earlier AAE
- Chapter 5. Relativization in Earlier AAE
- Chapter 6. Comparison of written and spoken Earlier AAE179
- Chapter 7. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Regensburg, Germany.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-327) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110907971
- 3110907976
- OCLC:
- 606930208
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