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The Origin of American Black English : Be-Forms in the HOODOO Texts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1995Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (339 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110823622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Origin of American Black EnglishLOC classification:
  • PE3102.N4 -- E9 1996eb
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Contents:
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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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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