This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).Series Editor's Preface.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Preface.
1. Introduction:.
The Status of African American English.
A Unique Data Base.
The Hyde County Corpus.
Data Analysis.
Beyond Hyde County.
2. Issue in the Development of African American English:.
Hypotheses on Earlier African American English.
Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE.
The Nature of Earlier Written Texts.
Spoken Language Data Representing Earlier AAVE.
The Sociohistorical Context of Earlier African Americans.
Variation in Earlier AAVE.
Donor Source Attribution.
African American English in the Twentieth Century.
3. Defining the Enclave Dialect Community:.
Introduction.
Historically Isolated Speech Communities.
Geography.
Economy.
Historical Continuity.
Social Relations.
Group Identity.
The Social Construction of Enclave Status.
Language Change in Enclave Communities.
Sociolinguistic Principles in the Configuration of Isolated Dialects.
4. The Social History of Mainland Hyde County: .
Chesapeake Bay Origins.
The Settlement of Hyde County.
Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.
Reconstruction to lâ
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