TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ewers,Traute
TI  - The origin of American Black English: be-forms in the HOODOO texts 
T2  - Topics in English linguistics
SN  - 9783110823622
AV  - PE3102.N4 E9 1996eb
U1  - 427/.973/08996073 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - Black English
KW  - English language
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign elements
KW  - African
KW  - Variation
KW  - African languages
KW  - Influence on English
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Languages
KW  - Hoodoo (Cult)
KW  - Black English (Dialecte)
KW  - Anglais (Langue)
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Langues
KW  - Hoodoo (Culte)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ""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""
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