He criticizes traditional approaches to the genesis of AAEVE: 1) the "Creole origin hypothesis", 2) the hypothesis that AAVE was a South-eastern phenomenon which spread northwards and westwards, 3) the hypothesis that it was an archaic retention of what was spoken by low class Europeans, 4) the hypothesis that it was an archaic colonial English ... More @Wikipedia
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