Front matter -- General Introduction: Perspectives on Black English / Dillard, J. L. -- BLACK ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD -- Introduction -- American Linguistic Geography: A Sociological Appraisal / Pickford, Glenna Ruth -- Observations (1966) on the Problems of Defining Negro Dialect / Stewart, William A. -- Black American English and Syntactic Dialectology / Loflin, Marvin D. -- Dialectology in Generative Grammar / Luelsdorff, Philip A. -- Ain't, Not, and Don't in Black English / Fickett, Joan G. -- THE HISTORY OF BLACK ENGLISH -- Introduction -- The Religious Intelligencer (1821), Excerpts -- Das Neger-Englisch an der Westküste von Afrika / Grade, P. -- Negro English / Harrison, J. A. -- A Word-List from East Alabama / Payne, Jr. -- Some Special West African English Words / Christophersen, Paul -- A Note on the Words dash and ju-ju in West African English / Christophersen, Paul -- Negro Dialect / Wise, C. M. -- Sociolinguistic Factors in the History of American Negro Dialects / Stewart, William A. -- Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects / Stewart, William A. -- Some Aspects of English in Liberia / Hancock, Ian F. -- Appendix: Liberian English of Cape Palmas (with Piayon E. Kobbah) -- BLACK ENGLISH AND THE ACCULTURATION PROCESS -- Introduction -- Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes / Bascom, William R. -- The Writings of Herskovits and the Study of the Language of the Negro in the New World / Dillard, J. L. -- Black Kinesics - Some Non-Verbal |