EAN: 9783631540572

I CAN LOOK THROUGH MUDDY WATER - ULRICH MIETHAN...

With its 1.5 million words BLUR is the biggest electronic corpus of nonstandard English. The
present study describes the stages in the design  the compilation  and the editing of BLUR and
attempts to gauge its linguistic profit. This is done both from a theoretical perspective -
blues poetry vs. natural speech  representativeness  validity - and from an analytical
perspective in particular qualitative  quantitative  and comparative analyses of morphological
morphosyntactic  and syntactic features. The findings indicate that BLUR provides an
outstandingly rich and reliable documentation of the vernaculars spoken by African Americans
between the Civil War and World War II. The more than 1 000 illustrative examples presented
throughout this study attest to the correctness of this statement.

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