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Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social |
Consider the magnificent habitual be in AAVE. It's not a tense, it's a grammatical *aspect*. If you've ever studied a romance language, you learned words like perfective vs. imperfective, preterite, etc. Aspect indicates how long a verb is verbing.
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Pookleblinky
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Aspects are intimately connected to tenses, and a lot of languages started out with distinct, explicit aspect versus tense constructions that ended up merging over time to become timey-wimey verb stuff.
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Maximum Mary
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I took a class where the prof talked about the historical importance of old dictionaries and how US dictionaries used to include AAVE as a dialect, but at a certain point they stopped doing so. No memory of when, sorry.
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randog
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“Language is both alive and tends towards efficiency” isn’t a difficult concept, but it does seem to be unfamiliar to a lot of folks.
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