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The Emergence of Black English : text and commentary /

Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BE...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bailey, Guy, 1950-, Maynor, Natalie, Cukor-Avila, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Speaking of slavery: the historical value of the recordings with slaves / Paul D. Escott
  • Slave narratives, slave culture, and the slave experience / Joe Graham
  • Song, sermons, and life stories: the legacy of the ex-slave narratives / Jeutonne P. Brewer
  • The linguistic value of the ex-slave recordings / Michael Montgomery
  • Representativeness and reliability of the ex-slave materials, with special reference to Wallace Quarterman's recording and transcript / John R. Rickford
  • Is Gullah decreolizing? a comparison of a speech sample of the 1930s with a sample of the 1980s / Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • The Atlantic Creoles and the language of the ex-slave recordings / John Holm
  • Liberian settler English and the ex-slave recordings: a comparative study / John Victor Singler
  • There's no tense like the present: verbal -S inflection in early black English / Shana Poplack, Sali Tagliamonte.