Ewers, Traute. <br/><br/>
The Origin of American Black English :  Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (339 pages) 
 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series ;  v.15 .
 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110823622 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Black English.<br/>English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- African.<br/>English language -- Variation -- United States.<br/>African languages -- Influence on English.<br/>African Americans -- Languages.<br/>Hoodoo (Cult).
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE3102.N4 -- E9 1996eb