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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145740403321 |
Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830174203321 |
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Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.]
| The development of African American English [[electronic resource] /] / Walt Wolfram and Erik R. Thomas ; in collaboration with Elaine W. Green ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Wolfram Walt <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
427.97308996073
427/.973/08996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ThomasErik R |
| Collana | Language in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-281-31968-6
9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910841639903321 |
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Wolfram Walt <1941->
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| Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The emergence of Black English [[electronic resource] ] : text and commentary / / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English [[electronic resource] ] : text and commentary / / edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Slaves - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457439903321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Enslaved persons - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's; 1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker; 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781598003321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila
| The emergence of Black English : text and commentary / / editors, Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427/.97308996073 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaileyGuy <1950->
MaynorNatalie Cukor-AvilaPatricia |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Black English - History
English language - United States - History Creole dialects, English - United States Enslaved persons - United States - Language African Americans - Languages Black English Americanisms |
| ISBN |
1-283-32819-4
9786613328199 90-272-7783-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Contents of the Collection; The Reliability and Validity of the Collection as Linguistic Data; Conduct of the Fieldwork; Composition of the Transcripts; The Interpretation of the Recordings and Transcripts; NOTES; TEXTS; Wallace Quarterman; Fountain Hughes; Uncle Billy McCrea; Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Joe McDonald and Woman; Isom Moseley; Alice Gaston; Laura Smalley; Harriet Smith; Celia Black; Charlie Smith; COMMENTARY
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value Of the Recordings With Former Slaves The Tapes as History; The Tapes and the Interview Process; Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience; Slaves As Chattel; Slave Attitudes Toward Masters; Slave Duties and Occupations; Folk Material Culture and Crafts; Folk Narratives; The Religious Experience; Recreation; The Yankee Soldiers Remembered; The Post-Slavery Experience; Summary and Conclusions; Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narrati ves; Introduction; Interviewing the Interviewer; Social Situation in the 1930's Conclusion The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings; Problems With Conduct of the Interviews; Problems With Reliability of the Data; Problems with Quality of the Data; Left Dislocation; Relative Pronouns; Comparison To Gullah; Summary; NOTES; Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Narrative Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman's Recording and Transcript; Introduction; Representativeness; Reliability; The Quarterman Tanscript; Changes That Make a Qualitative Difference; Changes That Make a Quantitative Difference; Summary and Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930's With a Sample of the 1980's; 1. Introduction; 2. The Data; 3. The Morphosyntax of Quarterman's Gullah; 3.1 Quarterman's Speech is Just Mesolectal; 3.2 Gullah Is Not Decreolizing; 4. Conclusion and Some Reflections; NOTES; The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings; 1. The Verb Phrase; 1.1 Creole Unmarked/Anterior versus English Present/Past; 1.2 Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 1.3 Completive Aspect; 2. Forms of be; 3. The Noun Phrase; 4. Pronouns; 5. Prepositions; 6. Word Order; 7. Lexical Items 8. Conclusion NOTES; Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comparative Study; 1.1 The Liberian Settlers' New World Roots; 1.2 Three LSE Speakers; 2.1 The Verb System: Aspect; 2.2 The Verb System: The Copula; 2.3 The Verb System: done and ain't; 3.1 Variation in Plural Marking; 3.2 Plural Marking in the Ex-Slave Recordings and LSE; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; Appendix A; Appendix B; There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Previous analyses of black English -s; 2.1. Hypercorrection; 2.2. Aspectual marker; 2.3. Verbal agreement marker |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808520103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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