Linguistic Features and Functions of African American Vernacular English

Firstly an afford will be made to find a sufficient definition for AAVE. There are lots of different labels for the variety that changed as time passed and various researchers had various perspectives on AAVE. As a treatment of the origins and history of the vernacular would go beyond the scope of this seminar paper, the phonological and morphosyntactic features of AAVE will be looked at in the fo...