1998
DOI: 10.1075/dia.15.1.05win
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On The Origins of African American Vernacular English — A Creolist Perspective

Abstract: SUMMARYIn this second part of a two-part study of the origins of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), specific structural features of this dialect are examined and the argument is made that they arose via a process of language shift by Africans toward the white settler dialects of the southern American colonies in the 17th through 19th centuries. Essentially, the author agrees with dialec-tologists that AAVE was never itself a creole, but rather the result of partially successful acquistion of settler d… Show more

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“…There has been a productive linguistic exercise that compares historical patterns of linguistic variation in geographically dispersed communities where Africanized English is spoken (see Baugh 1980;Holm 1984;Singler 1991;Mufwene 1996;Winford 1998;Rickford 1999;Poplack 2000;Poplack and Tagliamonte 2001). Some have identified strong historical links to African languages (see Stewart 1967;Dillard 1972;Singler 1991;Rickford 1997;Mesthrie 2000); others have uncovered strong linkages to Anglican sources (see Poplack 2000;Poplack and Tagliamonte 2001).…”
Section: The Linguistic Consequences Of Racial Isolationmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…There has been a productive linguistic exercise that compares historical patterns of linguistic variation in geographically dispersed communities where Africanized English is spoken (see Baugh 1980;Holm 1984;Singler 1991;Mufwene 1996;Winford 1998;Rickford 1999;Poplack 2000;Poplack and Tagliamonte 2001). Some have identified strong historical links to African languages (see Stewart 1967;Dillard 1972;Singler 1991;Rickford 1997;Mesthrie 2000); others have uncovered strong linkages to Anglican sources (see Poplack 2000;Poplack and Tagliamonte 2001).…”
Section: The Linguistic Consequences Of Racial Isolationmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…We include elderly (born between 1889 and 1920) and young Hyde County African Americans and European Americans in the comparison, as well as contemporary AAVE as profiled in studies such as Fasold and Wolfram (1970), Labov (1972), and Winford (1998).…”
Section: Variation In Earlier Aavementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Winford takes the position that be's "development was due in part to substrate influence from creole varieties of English which had a semantic opposition between habitual and punctual [i.e., nonhabitual] in copula constructions quite similar to that which emerged in urban AAVE" (Winford 1998, p 126). As Rickford (1977) and Winford (1998) suggest, the hypothesis that be's source is in a creole substrate has some merit.…”
Section: Habitual Bementioning
confidence: 99%