The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English : : An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources / / Alexander Kautzsch.
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 (ne...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 p.) :; Ill. |
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