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The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English - An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
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The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English - An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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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.
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