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Lisa J. Green's AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH: A Linguistic Introduction caused something of a sensation when it was first published in 2002. Here we have a rigorous, detailed examination of the grammar, lexicon, and sociolinguistics of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) written by a native speaker, and moreover of a lesser cited dialect (New Orleans). All volumes in this Cambridge University Press series assume that the reader has training in linguistics, and Green's work is no exception. If you haven't taken general linguistics courses, then a more accessible introduction to AAVE might be Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. About half of the book covers the grammar and lexicon of AAVE. Green covers the terms found only in AAVE ("kitchen" in the meaning of "hair on the nape", "ashy" for skin, etc.). She then lists the AAVE's dizzying array of verbal markers and its interesting syntactic rules, showing how this non-standard, low-prestige variety nonetheless has an elegance and naturalness about it. The chapter on phonology discusses such things as final consonant sounds, devoicing, sound patterns and th and liquid vocalization. The second half of the book is sociolinguist

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Author

Lisa J Green; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Cambridge, U.k. ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521891387

Category

education

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

Rating

4.03 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14