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SHE SAY , SHE GO , SHE BE LIKE : VERBS OF QUOTATION OVER TIME IN AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH PATRICIA CUKOR-AVILA University of North Texas Since the early 1980s, when Ronald Butters published ...
A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2002 She say , She go , She be like : Verbs of Quotation over Time in African American Vernacular English patricia cukor-avila ...
). She responds to his impassioned pleas by repeating, three times , the phrase, “I’m saying they came in my yard,” a denial that expresses the vulnerability of African Americans in the era of the Fugitive ...
” (“What the Discovery”). After emancipation, Kossola and his African compatriots wish to return—“We say we from cross de water so we go back where we come from”—but return is a financial impossibility ...
and Kirilloff use dependency parsing to extract verb and gendered pronoun pairs (‘he said’, ‘ she walked’, etc.). They then build a classification model to predict the gender of a pronoun based on the verb being ...
first in-depth treatment of African American writers in a chapter called “Black Novelists and Novels, 1930–1950”; a laudatory New York Times review claimed that the book “highlighted the chief currents ...
postcolonial Mauritian imagery.’4 Like Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Marcel Cabon, Loys Masson, Marcelle Lagesse or M. T. Humbert, Soobramanien continues to rewrite Bernardin’s foundational text, even as she ...
and dissatisfied with her condition, thought she could do better in a land of freedom, and such like I watched her closely you may depend.” In between Hannah’s pulls on her snarled hair, Mrs. Wheeler continues, “Oh ...
wife, Deborah Read Franklin, appears only a few times , and it is hard to find any flattering remarks about her character, other than she was an industrious woman and good business partner. Franklin's ...
time Harlem Renaissance writers like Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Du Bois travelled to Asia and documented their experiences, many in the African American community looked to the Japanese Empire ...
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