African-American English in the Southern United States
GPTKB entity
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:dialect
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| gptkbp:alternativeName |
Southern AAVE
Southern African-American Vernacular English |
| gptkbp:hasDistinctiveLexicon |
'ain't'
'done' as aspect marker 'finna' (fixing to) |
| gptkbp:hasDistinctiveMorphology |
use of 'be' as habitual marker
use of 'been' as remote aspect marker use of 'been' as remote past marker use of 'done' as completive aspect marker use of 'done' as perfective marker use of 'finna' as immediate future marker use of 'gon' as future marker use of 'steady' as aspect marker |
| gptkbp:hasDistinctiveSyntax |
habitual 'be'
negative concord zero copula |
| gptkbp:hasFeature |
use of double negatives
copula absence unique intonation patterns Southern vowel shift distinctive verb aspect marking |
| gptkbp:hasPhonology |
final consonant cluster reduction
monophthongization of /ai/ r-lessness in some areas stress on first syllable in some words |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
African-American English in the Southern United States
|
| gptkbp:influencedBy |
gptkb:Creole_languages
gptkb:West_African_languages gptkb:Southern_American_English |
| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Appalachian_English
gptkb:Gullah |
| gptkbp:spokenIn |
gptkb:Southern_United_States
|
| gptkbp:studiedBy |
gptkb:Lisa_Green
gptkb:Walt_Wolfram |
| gptkbp:subclassOf |
gptkb:African-American_English
|
| gptkbp:usedBy |
gptkb:African-American
|
| gptkbp:usedIn |
gptkb:Alabama
gptkb:Florida gptkb:Georgia gptkb:Louisiana gptkb:Mississippi gptkb:North_Carolina gptkb:South_Carolina gptkb:Texas |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Southern_Black_English
|
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
6
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