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I Can Look Through Muddy Water - Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR) (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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I Can Look Through Muddy Water - Analyzing Earlier African American English in Blues Lyrics (BLUR) (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 47
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With its 1.5 million words Blur is the biggest electronic corpus of
nonstandard English. The present study describes the stages in the
design, the compilation, and the editing of Blur and attempts to
gauge its linguistic profit. This is done both from a theoretical
perspective - blues poetry vs. natural speech, representativeness,
validity - and from an analytical perspective in particular
qualitative, quantitative, and comparative analyses of
morphological, morphosyntactic, and syntactic features. The
findings indicate that Blur provides an outstandingly rich and
reliable documentation of the vernaculars spoken by African
Americans between the Civil War and World War II. The more than
1,000 illustrative examples presented throughout this study attest
to the correctness of this statement.
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