The English history of African American English /
Poplack, Shana.
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rephrasing the copula: contraction and zero in early African American English / James A. Walker -- Reconstructing the source of early African American English plural marking: a comparative study of English and Creole / Shana Poplack, Sali Tagliamonte, and Ejike Eze -- Negation and the Creole-origins hypothesis: evidence from early African American English / Darin M. Howe and James A. Walker -- Old was, new ecology: viewing English through the sociolinguistic filter / Sali Tagliamonte and Jennifer Smith -- The question question: auxiliary inversion in early African American English / Gerard Van Herk -- It's all relative: relativization strategies in early African American English / Gunnel Tottie and Dawn Harvie -- Some sociohistorical inferences about the development of African American English / Salikoko S. Mufwene.
English language
Black English
African Americans
Americanisms