E-Book, Englisch, Band 38, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Kautzsch The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English
Nachdruck 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-090797-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources
E-Book, Englisch, Band 38, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
ISBN: 978-3-11-090797-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
