Re: Some conlang questions

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

> ("Ebonics"),
[shudder]

> they also have some important
> grammatical differences.  If i
> remember correctly AAVE distinguishes simple
> |you standin| (='you are
> standing') from habitual |you be standin|, a
> construction that doesn't
> exist in many other dialects of English,
> including the 'standard'.
Actually, the socalled simple present _is_ a
habitual form in SAE. So, BEV / AAVE seems to
mark the same aspects as SAE (punctual/durative)
but in a different way, as you say above. AAVE
also has "done" and "been" as aspect markers in
addition to "be" (and "de" in Gullah).

Padraic.


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beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
     pe' ne m' molestyont
     que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.

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