@bodhiswata @katiedimartin for instance Folli & Ramchand in this 2005 volume https://t.co/1WobSPCXbH
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@John2000mg Lol my slow ass found the UMass article. It was linked in the slate article. Duh 🤦🏾♀️ You can see just from the abstract how intricate AAVE language is and how children adolescent and adult understanding of the language has levels. https://t
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@acidshill @tamalefencer finding the paper (https://t.co/Z5wKOYsvLK) clarifies that "be eating cookies" actually has two uses, to specify a habitual occurrence (auxiliary) and asserting an eventuality to an action (aspectual). not familiar with these lingu
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AAVE is a whole language. For example: https://t.co/dQQX0uatI1