Gullah in the diaspora

Historical and linguistic evidence from the Bahamas

Bibliographic Data

ID20344768
AuthorsStephanie Hackert (0000-0002-0880-229X, University of Regensburg), Magnus Huber (Universität Gießen)
Year2007
Volume24
Issue2
Pages279-325
Publication date2007-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiachronica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/dia.24.2.04hac
OpenAlexW2051134146
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The status of Gullah and Bahamian Creole English (BahCE) within the Atlantic English creoles and their historical relationship with African American Vernacular English (AAVE) have long been a matter of discussion. It was assumed that Gullah and BahCE are ‘sister’ varieties sharing an immediate ancestor in the eighteenth-century creole English spoken on plantations in the American South. We present historical and linguistic data, including a statistical analysis of 253 phonological, lexical, and grammatical features found in eight Atlantic English creoles, to show that Gullah and BahCE are indeed closely related — so closely in fact that BahCE must be considered a ‘diaspora variety’ not of AAVE but of Gullah

Ancestor · Archaeology · Creole language · Diaspora · English-based creole languages · Genealogy · Linguistics · Modern language · Sociology · Vernacular · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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