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==== African American Vernacular English ==== The aspectual systems of certain dialects of English, such as [[African-American Vernacular English]] (see for example [[habitual be]]), and of [[English-based creole language|creoles]] based on English vocabulary, such as [[Hawaiian Creole English]], are quite different from those of standard English, and often reflect a more elaborate paradigm of aspectual distinctions (often at the expense of tense).<ref>Green, L. (1998). Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English. ''African-American English: Structure, history, and use'', 37-68.</ref> The following table, appearing originally in Green (2002)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Green|first=Lisa J.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780511800306/type/book|title=African American English: A Linguistic Introduction|date=2002-08-08|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81449-2|edition=1|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511800306}}</ref> shows the possible aspectual distinctions in AAVE in their prototypical, negative and [[Stress (linguistics)|stressed]]/emphatic affirmative forms: {| class="wikitable" |+Aspectual Marking in AAVE !Aspect/Tense !Prototypical !Stressed / Emphatic Affirmative !Negative |- |[[Habitual aspect|Habitual]] |'be eating' (see [[Habitual be]]) |'DO be eating' |'don('t) be eating' |- |[[Remote past tense|Remote Past]] |'BIN eating' (see <ref>Harris, Alysia and Jim Wood. 2013. Stressed BIN. ''Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America''. (Available online at http://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/stressed-bin . Accessed on 2020-06-10). Updated by Tom McCoy (2015) and Katie Martin (2018).</ref>) |'HAVE BIN eating' |'ain('t)/haven't BIN eating' |- |Remote Past [[Completive aspect|Completive]] |'BIN ate' |'HAD BIN ate' |'ain('t)/haven't BIN ate' |- |[[Preterite|Remote Past Perfect]] |'had BIN ate' |'HAD BIN ate' |'hadn't BIN ate' |- |[[Resultative|Resultant State]] |'dən ate' |'HAVE dən ate' |'ain('t) dən ate' |- |Past Perfect Resultant State |'had dən ate' |'HAD dən ate' |'hadn't dən ate' |- |[[Modal verb|Modal]] Resultant State |'should'a dən ate' | -- | -- |- |Remote Past Resultant State |'BIN dən ate' |'HAVE BIN dən ate' |'ain('t)/haven't BIN dən ate' |- |Remote Past Perfect Resultant State |'had BIN dən ate' | -- | -- |- |Future Resultant State/[[Conditional sentence|Conditional]] |' 'a be dən ate' |'WILL be dən ate' |'won't be dən ate' |- |Modal Resultant State |'might/may be dən ate' |'MIGHT/MAY be dən ate' |'might/may not be dən ate' |}
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