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

The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English : : An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources / / 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 (ne...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Kautzsch, Alexander ,
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] , 38
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Physical Description:1 online resource (335 p.) :; Ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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