The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources

(Book #38 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

by Alexander Kautzsch

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3110173018

ISBN13:9783110173017

Release Date:July 2002

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:350 Pages

Weight:1.37 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts

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The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources

(Book #38 in the Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series)

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