African American English conít

Syntactic Differences between AAE, AE, and CE

Syntactic differences also exist between dialects. It is the syntactic differences that have often been used to illustrate the ìillogicî of AAE, yet just such differences point to the fact that AAE is as syntactically complex and a ìlogicalî as AE or CE.

1) Double Negatives

2) Deletion of the Verb Be

3) Habitual Be

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