Datapoint African American English/The prohibitive

Values

Normal imperative construction and normal negator

Example 14-54:
He doesn't even allow women to wear pants at women's retreats and he doesn't even be there.
He
he
doesn't
do.neg
even
even
allow
allow
women
women
to
to
wear
wear
pants
pants
at
at
women's
women's
retreats
retreats
and
and
he
he
doesn't
doesn't
even
even
be
hab
there.
there
He does not allow women to wear pants at women's retreats although he is not even usually there.

Source: Green 2002: 69

Example 14-70:
Run!
Run!
run.imp
Run!
Example 14-71:
Don't run!
Don't
proh
run!
run
Don't run!
Confidence:
Very certain