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Donahue, Thomas S. – 1978
This study develops specific facts about the nature of the Black English "lingua franca" which formed on the American eastern seaboard in the last half of the eighteenth century. Accepting an assumption that American English of this period was levelling into a "koine," this investigation attempts to characterize the consonant loss and substitution…
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Black History, Black Literature
