33.3836, Books: Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English: Bailey, Cukor-Avila, Salinas

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Subject: 33.3836, Books: Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English: Bailey, Cukor-Avila, Salinas

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:48:59
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English: Bailey, Cukor-Avila, Salinas

 


Title: Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African
American English 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/inheritance-and-innovation-evolution-rural-african-american-english?format=PB 


Author: Guy Bailey
Author: Patricia Cukor-Avila
Author: Juan Salinas

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009087711 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 22.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009087711 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009087711 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 19.84


Abstract:

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
provided a demographic and socio-cultural context within which linguistic
innovations could develop and spread. The mismatch between form and function
within the present tense copula/auxiliary system and the grammatical
ambiguities that affected both invariant be and zero provided linguistic
triggers for this reanalysis. When taken together, the evolution of these
forms illustrates how restructured linguistic subsystems (and eventually new
varieties) emerge out of the interplay between inheritance and innovation.
 



1. Introduction; 2. An approach to analyzing the AAE Copula/Aux System; 3.
Invariant be; 4. Zero copula/Auxiliary; 5. The interaction of innovation with
inheritance in the twentieth century AAE Copula/Auxiliary System; 6.
Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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