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The English History of African American English

Shana Poplack (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21262-1
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298 pages
January 2000, ©2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume explores an alternative hypothesis: that the characteristic features were acquired from the varieties of English to which early speakers were exposed.
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