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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
Language as a subject
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.