Number Delimitation in Gullah

Abstract

ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE and challenging aspects of studying (contemporary) Gullah is the amount of both interand intra-individual variation in spontaneous speech even at the level of what may be considered its basilect.' The investigator is very likely to hear in the same discourse (though not with equal frequency) alternations such as [bil bin/woz horn] 'Bill was home' (where [bin] and [waz] are synonymous), or [A SAm]/[A si It]/[A S3: It] 'I saw it' (where the unmarked [si] alternates almost freely with [s::] and the phonologically conditioned allomorph [']); or [a:1 A wi]/[a:l AV As] 'all of us;'or [hiI kAm wI hi, SAn]/[Si, kAm wI hi, sAn]/[Si, kAm wI hal sAn] 'she came with her son'(with reference to the same individual). Such alternations are attested in the domain of number delimitation too:

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