LIBERIAN LETTERS AND VIRGINIAN NARRATIVES: NEGATION PATTERNS IN TWO NEW SOURCES OF EARLIER AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH

Negative attraction and negative concord in English grammar

William Labov · Language · 1972 · 316 citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +9

Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves.

Theodore Kornweibel, Charles L. Perdue, Thomas E. Barden et al. · The Journal of Southern History · 1977 · 190 citations

Humanities, History, Slavery Studies +14

Variability in negation in African American Vernacular English

Tracey L. Weldon · Language Variation and Change · 1994 · 137 citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +12

"When I can read my title clear": literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 132 citations

Humanities, History, Religion +14

“The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural -<i>s</i>] Jest like the white men”: Evidence for verbal -<i>s</i> from written documents on 19th-century African American speech

Michael Montgomery, Janet M. Fuller, Sharon DeMarse · Language Variation and Change · 1993 · 129 citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +11