Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

Bailey, Guy; Cukor‐Avila, Patricia; Salinas, Juan

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“…However, as a result several research milestones that are linked with AAVE copula research are no longer described here. Readers seeking additional details in this regard would be well advised to examine Rickford et al 1991 andBailey et al 2022, where many of the major research breakthroughs are explicated.…”

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Linguistic emancipation

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2023

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The term linguistic emancipation embraces various interpretations. One relates to occasions where linguists have helped people overcome problems that are attributable to various linguistic calamities. Another pertinent vector relates to methodological innovations that extricate linguistic research from methodological confinement and that embrace new technologies to help advance our collective scientific mission. These alternative perspectives are illustrated here in small measure through studies of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and gender modification in the speech of a trans woman. The legacy of inventive methodological advances in linguistics is celebrated by emphasizing some liberating linguistic research trajectories in which experimental, self-generated data and descriptive investigations of endangered and underrepresented languages or dialects stand side by side, serving a comprehensive linguistic science in which alternative analytical procedures abound in harmonious complementarity.

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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

Bailey

Cukor‐Avila²,

Salinas³

2022

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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.

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Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century

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English fulfils important intra- and international functions in 21st century India. However, the country's size in terms of area, population, and linguistic diversity means that completely uniform developments in Indian English (IndE) are unlikely. Using sophisticated corpus-linguistic and statistical methods, this Element explores the unity and diversity of IndE by providing studies of selected lexical and morphosyntactic features that characterise Indian English(es) in the 21st century. The findings indicate a degree of incipient 'supralocalisation', i.e. a spread of features beyond their place of origin, cutting through the typological Indo-Aryan vs. Dravidian divide.

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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

Cited by 7 publications

References 69 publications

Linguistic emancipation

Linguistic emancipation

Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century

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