TY - BOOK AU - Ewers,Traute TI - The Origin of American Black English: Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110145861 AV - PE3102.N4 E9 1996eb U1 - 427/.973/08996073 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - African languages KW - Influence on English KW - Black English KW - English language KW - Variation KW - United States KW - Foreign elements KW - African KW - Modalverb KW - USA KW - Wodu KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-VI --; Preface --; Contents --; List of abbreviations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The HOODOO texts as corpus --; 3. Invariant be --; 4. Be1-forms: conjugated, contracted and zero forms --; 5. Conclusion --; Appendix I. List of informants --; Appendix II. Tagging system --; Appendix III. List of invariant be-forms --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823622 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110823622 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110823622/original ER -