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Author Ewers, Traute, 1960-

Title The origin of American Black English : be-forms in the HOODOO texts / Traute Ewers.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 327 pages).
African languages
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Topics in English linguistics ; 15
Topics in English linguistics ; 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""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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Subject Black English.
Black English.
English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- African.
English language.
United States.
English language -- Variation -- United States.
English language -- Variation.
African languages -- Influence on English.
African languages -- Influence on English.
African Americans -- Languages.
African Americans -- Languages.
Hoodoo (Cult)
Hoodoo (Cult)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ewers, Traute, 1960- Origin of American Black English. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996 (DLC) 95042929
ISBN 9783110823622 (electronic book)
3110823624 (electronic book)
3110145863 (cloth acid-free paper)
9783110145861

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