03484nam 2200721 450 991082341300332120230607232320.03-11-090797-610.1515/9783110907971(CKB)3390000000034436(EBL)3049933(OCoLC)606930208(SSID)ssj0000849319(PQKBManifestationID)11457485(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000849319(PQKBWorkID)10812199(PQKB)10810835(MiAaPQ)EBC3049933(DE-B1597)43601(OCoLC)979850235(DE-B1597)9783110907971(Au-PeEL)EBL3049933(CaPaEBR)ebr11035982(CaONFJC)MIL806639(EXLCZ)99339000000003443620020612d2002 uy| 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe historical evolution of earlier African American English an empirical comparison of early sources /by Alexander KautzschReprint 2012Berlin ;New York :Mouton de Gruyter,2002.1 online resource (350 p.)Topics in English linguistics ;38Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Regensburg, Germany.3-11-017301-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-327) and index.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 --IndexBased 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.Topics in English linguistics ;38.African AmericansLanguagesSourcesEnglish languageUnited StatesForeign elementsAfricanSourcesEnglish languageUnited StatesHistorySourcesAfrican languagesInfluence on EnglishSourcesBlack EnglishSourcesAmericanismsSourcesAfrican AmericansLanguagesEnglish languageForeign elementsAfricanEnglish languageHistoryAfrican languagesInfluence on EnglishBlack EnglishAmericanisms427/.973/08996073Kautzsch Alexander1969-2018,175446MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823413003321The historical evolution of earlier African American English3993274UNINA