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Sledd, James – 1980
This paper makes three arguments reaffirming the overwhelming complexities inherent in any real history of the language of blacks in North America. (1) Although the study of black English, however that term may be defined, is desirable in itself and was profitable for white linguists during the 1960s and early 1970s, it did not and never will do…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
