The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and CultureMichael Montgomery The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England. Decades before any formal, scholarly interest in South Carolina barrier island life, outsiders had been commenting on and documenting the "African" qualities of the region's black inhabitants. These qualities have long been manifest in their language, religious practices, music, and material culture. Not surprisingly, the influence of the pioneering linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner is reflected in many of these essays. The work presented in this volume, however, moves beyond Turner in dealing with the discourse and stylistic aspects of Gullah; in relating patterns of Gullah to other anglophone creoles and to various processes of creolization; and in questioning the usefulness of "retention, " "survival, " and "continuity" as operational concepts in comparative research. Opening new and advancing previous areas of research, The Crucible of Carolina also contributes to a further appreciation of the richness and diversity of South Carolina's cultural heritage. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Recollections of African Language Patterns in an American | 4 |
Frederic G Cassidy | 16 |
Misinterpreting Linguistic Continuity Charitably | 38 |
Variation in the Use of the Auxiliary Verb | 60 |
Flexibility and Creativity in AfroAmerican English | 87 |
The Language | 115 |
Basket Traditions | 133 |
Lorenzo Dow Turners Early Work on Gullah | 158 |
Lorenzo Dow Turners Gullah Data | 175 |
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Contributors | 221 |
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acrolect African languages African-American Afro-American ain't Alleyne American anglophone creoles aspect auxiliary auxiliary verb Barbados basilect basketry bearer Bickerton Black English boay Caribbean Cassidy CECs century Charles Town Charleston Cherokee Coast coiled colonial congregation context copula Creole English creole languages creolization cultural dæt decreolization diachronic dialects Edwert European examples field records grammatical Gullah speakers Guyanese Creole gwain Hancock inflected influence interpretation iterative Jamaican John Jones-Jackson knaw Krio Kwa languages language varieties lexical lexifier linguistic continuity Lorenzo Dow Turner Low Country main verb Mande languages marker Mende Mister Bill Mufwene native nickname nonstandard nonstative noun origin patterns personal name phonetic pidgin plantation quate rice Sea Islands semantic sentences Sierra Leone slaves South Carolina speech splints spoken stative Stewart structures syntactic Thoph'lus tion traditional Turner variation verb phrase West African words World Yeah Yoruba