TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kautzsch,Alexander
TI  - The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources 
T2  - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
SN  - 9783110173017
AV  - PE3102.N44 
U1  - 427 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Languages
KW  - Sources
KW  - African languages
KW  - Influence on English
KW  - English language
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign elements
KW  - African
KW  - History
KW  - Black English
KW  - Geschichte 1830-1937
KW  - USA
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907971
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110907971
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110907971/original
ER  -