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Peer reviewedSmith, Ernie A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1978
Three linguistic theories (the creolist, the transformationalist, and the ethnolinguistic) of the origin and historical development of Ebonics in America are examined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition
