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.
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