The Development of African American EnglishThis book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Issues in the Development of African American English | 12 |
3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community | 32 |
4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County | 47 |
5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English | 66 |
6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English | 95 |
7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English | 125 |
8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English | 151 |
9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English | 160 |
The Past and Present Development of AAVE | 184 |
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