Example 13-93
I beena cook my dinner.
I was cooking my dinner.
- Comment:
- The a in been-a is presumed to be a reduced form of da (Cunnigham 1992: 51). Hopkins (1994: 73) also remarks that "patterns used to convey the progressive in Gullah included [...] be + da + V", but provides no example.
- Type:
- naturalistic spoken
- Source:
- Cunningham 1992: 50-51