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Publication details [#46779]

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2002. The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English. An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources. (Topics in English Linguistics 38). De Gruyter. XV+335 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | historical linguistics | racism | speech | writing

Language as a subject

English, African American

Annotation

Drawing on a word corpus of early Early African American English sources, collected from ex-slave narratives, recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book presents a reconstruction of the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920.