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In "Other" Words: Some Thoughts on the Transferability of Collocations
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Odlin, Terence – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
In discussions of cross-linguistic influence (also known as language transfer), the focus is usually on the influence of a particular structure in a particular instance of language contact, for instance, the negative transfer of serial verbs by Vietnamese learners of English: "She has managed to rise the kite fly over the tallest…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Verbs, Syntax, English (Second Language)
Copula Deletion and West African Languages: A Source for Covert Norms in American Black English.
Donahue, Thomas S. – 1980
The loss of the copula in Black English Vernacular (BEV) is demonstrably traceable to norms of pidginization that have their roots in West African languages and in contact among those languages. An extensive examination of the verb systems of a number of West African languages reveals that in every case a variety of verbal forms serves the many…
Descriptors: African History, African Languages, Black Dialects, Descriptive Linguistics
African Conceptualization of Time: Clues from Black English.
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Felder, David W. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1978
The African concept of time is reinterpreted, emphasizing aspect rather than tense. Examples are taken from Black English. (MC)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Black Dialects, Language Patterns
Gullah: On the Question of Afro-American Language.
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Jones-Jackson, Patricia A. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978
Proposes the study of Gullah as a means of discovering the African roots of Black English. (AM)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics