The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources
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Beteilige Person: Kautzsch, Alexander 1969-2018 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Hochschulschrift/Dissertation Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2002
Schriftenreihe:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 38
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 38
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907971
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907971
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907971
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9783110907971
Beschreibung:Biographical note: Alexander Kautzsch is lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany
Main description: 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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XV, 335 S.)
ISBN:9783110173017
9783110907971
9783111796796