Africanisms in the Gullah dialect /
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| Author / Creator: | Turner, Lorenzo Dow. |
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| Imprint: | Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South Carolina, c2002. |
| Description: | lxi, 321 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southern classics series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4728639 |
Table of Contents:
- General Editors' Preface
- Introduction
- Notes to Introduction
- Preface to First Edition
- 1.. Backgrounds
- Importation of Slaves to South Carolina and Georgia Direct from Africa
- The British Dialects and Baby-Talk
- Difficulties Which Have Confronted Investigators of Gullah
- 2.. Phonetic Alphabet and Diacritics
- Phonetic Alphabet
- A.. Vowels
- B.. Diphthongs
- C.. Consonants
- Diacrities
- A.. Tone Marks
- B.. Accent Marks
- C.. Others
- 3.. West African Words in Gullah
- Personal Names
- A.. The Twi
- B.. The Dahomeans
- C.. The Mandingo
- D.. The Yoruba
- E.. The Ibo
- F.. The Northern Tribes of Nigeria
- G.. The Ovimbundu
- H.. Personal Names Used by the Gullahs
- Abbreviations
- Other Words Used in Conversation
- Some Expressions Heard Only in Stories, Songs, and Prayers
- 4.. Syntactical Features
- Voice
- Verb Phrases
- d[characters not reproducible] as a Verb of Incomplete Predication
- Comparison of Adjectives
- Verbal Adjectives
- Word Order
- Frequent Repetition of Words and Phrases throughout the Sentence
- 5.. Morphological Features
- Number
- A.. Nouns
- B.. Verbs
- Tense
- Case
- A.. Pronouns
- B.. Nouns
- Gender
- 6.. Some Word-Formations
- The Use of Groups of Words for Parts of Speech
- Reduplicated Forms
- Onomatopoetic Expressions
- 7.. Sounds
- Consonants
- Vowels
- 8.. Intonation
- 9.. Gullah Texts
- Numerals
- Songs
- Some Mende Expressions Occurring in Gullah Stories
- Hard Times on Edisto
- The Earthquake [1886]
- The Earthquake [1886]
- A Prayer
- Narratives of Religious Experience
- The Hag
- The Ghost
- Recollections of Slavery
- Making Manure on St. Helena Island
- The Chief of the Stevedores
- Appendix
- I.. Informants
- II.. Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
