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Peer reviewedHowe, Darin M. – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Describes the use of negation in three corpora representative of early to mid-19th-century African American English. The study examines the negative form "ain't," negative concord to indefinites and verbs, negative inversion and negative postposing. Findings reveal that the negation system of early African American English derived…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedTottie, Gunnel; Rey, Michel – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Examines the system of relative markers in early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings. Found a higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial than in nonadverbial relatives. The lack of "wh"-relatives found, as well as this frequency of zero subject relatives, is interpreted as evidence that African American…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Data Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
