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Publication details [#23271]

Rickford, John R. 1986. Social contact and linguistic diffusion: Hiberno-English and New World Black English. Language 62 (2) : 245–289.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | historical linguistics

Language as a subject

English, Hiberno | English, New World Black

Annotation

An analysis of New World Black English habitual 'be' against the background of the history of social contacts between Irish and Africans in colonial America. Rickford tests various hypotheses and discusses theoretical implications.