African American English .

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African American English
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Date: 11th December 2018

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African American English
African American English began in the 17th century before industrialization when men were the
main source of labour, the demand of human labour in the west countries contributed to the rise
of slave trade. British had already settled and settled in North America and there was huge
economical upsurge which led to rise of plantations that required human labour as machinery
was not yet available (Eckert, 2000). Africa being the cheapest source of human labour, there
was mass slave trade and since English was spoken mainly by the British settlers, it resulted in
transformation among the black people which contorted it to their own form rising to different
dialects. One of the most widespread and popular dialect was known as African American
English which is also known Black English in parts of Northern America. The18th and 19th
centuries show massive human trafficking of African into the American soils, most of the
African slaves who mostly originated from Central and West African countries were transported
to North America. It was hard for the master to communicate to his servant because they did not
share a common language, for the two to effectively communicate they had to combine their two
languages and developed phrases which could be understood to both parties, this saw the growth
of African American English (Blodgett, & O'Connor, 2017).
According to (Chang & Leong, 2017), every language, or a dialect, there rules. In African
American English, which is largely identifiable with Black Americans, which has been cultivated
since early years, there are set rules many them are adopted from features of the language. And
like any other language, all these variations arise from regional zones or ethnological point of
view.

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First, verbs have two basic modes. The first mode (subject) or aspect was borrowed from the
European settlers who had settled in North America: the second is the verb phrase mostly
originated from the mix of the American native language mix with the African languages as they
tried to express the action. According to Craig & Washington, (2004), the verb phrase refers to
the how things or activities are being carried out.
According to (Craig, et al 2004), the two languages have clear distinctions in their wording but a
have comparatively similar meaning which make it possible for the two different races to
understand the new language as it mostly employ the same subject and object formation and
have a slight deviation in the action or verb phrase. The American English employs Standard
English, for instance i.e. He is in his office every morning, while the African American English
is majorly characterized by use of relaxed form action phrase: He does be in his office in the
morning, (Blodgett, et al 2017), despite the two sentence having a different word composition of
the sentence in the two languages the subject of and objects in the do not change which make it
possible for it to convey the intended message.
The two languages further greatly varies in their application of the Slavic languages: African
Unlike other English languages, American English greatly vary in how it phrases its simple
complete sentences an example off such can be seen in the following two examples (She done
come = she have come) and (we been sing = we had sang b). Some other specification including
the Irish English also applies similar Slavic languages, however, the African American English
does not apply that kind of language (Trudgill & Hannah, 2017).
Further the African American English employs the rule of elimination of redundancy which
makes it superior over other forms of languages. One of the strongest example of this can be