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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English - Bailey, Guy, and Cukor-Avila, Patricia, and Salinas, Juan
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"This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers - invariant be to mark durativity/habituality and zero to mark nonstativity. The motivation for these innovations were both socio-cultural and linguistic. The Great Migration and its consequences ...

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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English 2022, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781009087711

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