A SPOKEN CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE VERB PHRASE FEATURES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE)

Ningsih, Putri Setia and Novita, Eka and Damayanti, Indah (2024) A SPOKEN CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE VERB PHRASE FEATURES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE). Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

There are so many group with different language, which is what is called language variation. The phenomenon of language variation is created due to social and cultural interactions. In the scope of English, the phenomenon of language variation is the existence of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study analyzed grammatical features of AAVE in Verb Phrase Features area which are used by native speakers or AAVE people when speaking to convey information. The aims of this research were to find out what AAVE Verb Phrase Features appear in interviews, and to prove that this research represents AAVE as the language being analyzed and that AAVE Verb Phrase Features do exist and are used by native speakers. This research used a research design Corpus Based-Analysis, with descriptive methods. A Compilation Corpus linguistic approach was used to collect data. The data in this research are utterances containing verb phrases obtained from transcripts of five interviews obtained from ORAAL (Online Resources of African American Language). Data were categorized by referring to ten categories from Walfram (2006). The first findings showed that there were eight types of AAVE verb phrase features that appear, namely Copula absence, Invariant be, Compelative done, Remote been, Simple past had + verb, Irregular verb, Subject-verb agreement, and the use of Ain't, Gonna, and say for quotation. The second finding showed that this research has represented the language studied and the theory used about the characteristics of the AAVE language, this was proven by the emergence of eight of the ten categories offered in the theory, and the level of naturalness of the objects or data analyzed. Keywords: African-American English, African-American vernacular English, Grammatical Features Analysis, Verb Phrase Features Analysis, Standard English, Sociolinguistics, Interview, Corpus Ling

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