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