The origin of American Black English : be-forms in the HOODOO texts / Traute Ewers.
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TextSeries: Topics in English linguistics ; 15.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (x, 327 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
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- 9783110823622
- 3110823624
- Black English
- English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- African
- English language -- Variation -- United States
- African languages -- Influence on English
- African Americans -- Languages
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Black English (Dialecte)
- Anglais (Langue) -- Variation -- États-Unis
- Noirs américains -- Langues
- Hoodoo (Culte)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General
- African Americans -- Languages
- African languages -- Influence on English
- Black English
- English language -- Foreign elements -- African
- English language -- Variation
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- United States
- 427/.973/08996073 20
- PE3102.N4 E9 1996eb
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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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