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Title African-American English : structure, history, and use / edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene ... [and others]
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description xiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction / Salikoko S. Mufwene and John R. Rickford -- 1. The sentence in African-American vernacular English / Stefan Martin and Walt Wolfram -- 2. Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English / Lisa Green -- 3. The structure of the noun phrase in African-American vernacular English / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- 4. Some aspects of African-American vernacular English phonology / Guy Bailey and Erik Thomas -- 5. Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English / William Labov -- 6. The creole origins of African-American-vernacular English: evidence from copula absence / John R. Rickford -- 7. Word from the hood: the lexicon of African-American vernacular English / Geneva Smitherman -- 8. African-American language use: Ideology and so-called obscenity / Arthur K. Spears -- 9. More than a mood or an attitude: Discourse and verbal genres in African-American culture / Marcyliena Morgan
10. Linguistics, education, and the law: Educational reform for African-American language minority students / John Baugh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject African Americans -- Language.
African Americans -- Languages.
Americanisms.
Black English.
English language -- Social aspects -- United States.
English language -- Variation -- United States.
Author Mufwene, Salikoko S.
LC no. 97037628
ISBN 0415117321 (hbk)
041511733X (paperback)
OTHER TI ProQuest Ebook Central