Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""List of abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1. Discussion of the topic""; ""1.2. Terminology""; ""2. The HOODOO texts as corpus""; ""2.1. General background and description""; ""2.2. Linguistic value""; ""2.3. Other sources of Earlier Black English""; ""2.4. Methodological considerations""; ""3. Invariant be""; ""3.1. Origin of be2""; ""3.2. Invariant be in HOODOO""; ""3.3. The aspectual meaning of be2""; ""3.4. Be2 and other present tense be-forms""; ""4. Be2-forms: conjugated, contracted and zero forms""; ""4.1. Past tense be-forms""; ""4.2. Present tense be1-forms""
  • ""5. Conclusion""""Appendix I List of informants""; ""Appendix II Tagging system""; ""Appendix III List of invariant fee-forms""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""