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Download full textScruggs, Terri – 1980
This report is an overview of some of the common features of African languages. It is difficult to present a concise and comprehensive summary of the features that are likely to be found in a group of languages as large and as totally unrelated as are the one to two thousand languages found on the continent of Africa. Therefore, representative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, African Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Peer reviewedDeFrantz, Anita P. – Journal of Black Studies, 1979
This article surveys the literature on Ebonics that was published from 1865 to 1975. The linguistic features of Ebonics are categorized into phonological, systactical, and lexical groupings. (Author)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedShields, Portia H.; Thompson, Donald – Negro History Bulletin, 1979
Black English is a linguistic system which has a phonological base in West African languages. It has been influenced by various other languages. The containment of Blacks in ghettos has worked toward preserving Black English. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black History
Studerus, Lenard, Ed. – 1987
Four papers address trends and issues in Hispanic linguistics. "Recent Trends in Hispanic Linguistics" (Frank Nuessel) gives an overview of benchmarks in research on diachronic, sociolinguistic, and applied aspects of Spanish phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. "African Influence on Hispanic Dialects" (John Lipski)…
Descriptors: African Languages, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
