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Title:

The crucible of Carolina : essays in the development of Gullah language and culture / edited by Michael Montgomery.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

x, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sea Islands Creole dialect.
Language and culture--South Carolina.
Language and culture--Caribbean Area.
Language and culture--Africa, West.

Other Authors:

Montgomery, Michael, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Montgomery -- Gullah and the caribbean connection / Frederic G. Cassidy -- Names and naming in the Sea Islands / Keith E. Baird and Mary A. Twining -- Misinterpreting linguistic continuity charitably / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Variation in the use of the auxiliary verb da in contemporary Gullah / Tometro Hopkins -- Flexibility and creativity in Afro-American English / Peter A. Roberts -- Componentiality and the creole matrix: the southwest english contribution / Ian F. Hancock -- Let the church say "Amen": the language of religious rituals in coastal South Carolina / Patricia Jones-Jackson -- Spirits of our ancestors: basket traditions in the Carolinas / Dale Rosengarten -- Lorenzo Dow Turner's early work on Gullah / Michael Montgomery -- Recollections of African language patterns in an American speech variety: an assessment of mende influences in Lorenzo Dow Turner's Gullah data.

ISBN:

9780820316239 (alk. paper)
0820316237 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28721597
(OCoLC)32237715

LCCN:

93032145

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)