LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypercorrection, Lower Middle Class, Sociolinguistics
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Copula deletion verb be, have and linking verb (seen, look: she is funny -> she"s fu(cid:374)(cid:374)(cid:455) -> she funny. Bin*exam used to mark completion of an action. I have done my homework, i have cooked -> i finished long ago = i bin finished my homework. Be +ing used to mark habitual action (something that happens all the time) I cook every day, he talks nonstop -> he be talking all the time. Use of steady and come to mark habitual action: he is always talking -> he steady talking, prominent feature studies done on this. Auxiliary had used with simple past tense (something done in past; used in front of past tense: what happened was -> what had happened was, completed action. Existential it and dey used to mark something that exists. It - singular, dey plural: there is a dog in here -> it"s a dog i(cid:374) here.
