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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 38Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (335 p.) : IllContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110173017
  • 9783110907971
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427 23
LOC classification:
  • PE3102.N44
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.

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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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