In:The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
[Creole Language Library 8] 1991
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 10 April 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.8.toc
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
Introduction1
1. Texts23
2. Commentary
Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace
Quarterman’s Recording and Transcript191
Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930s with a Sample of the 1980s213
There’s No Tense Like the Present: Verbal — S Inflection in Early Black English275
Appendix327
Bibliography331
List of Contributors351
