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UNINA9910823413003321 |
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Autore |
Kautzsch Alexander <1969-2018, > |
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Titolo |
The historical evolution of earlier African American English : an empirical comparison of early sources / / by Alexander Kautzsch |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2002 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2012] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Collana |
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Topics in English linguistics ; ; 38 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Languages |
English language - United States - Foreign elements - African |
English language - United States - History |
African languages - Influence on English |
Black English |
Americanisms |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Regensburg, Germany. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-327) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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