Datapoint African American English/Expletive subject of existential verb

Values

An expletive subject is used Frequency: 75.0%

Example 14-81:
It/Dey got a lot of books on the table.
It/Dey
expl
got
got
a
a
lot
lot
of
of
books
books
on
on
the
the
table.
table
There are a lot of books on the table.
Confidence:
Very certain

An expletive subject is not used Frequency: 25.0%

Example 14-82:
Got a lot of books on the table.
Ø
expl
got
got
a
a
lot
lot
of
of
books
books
on
on
the
the
table.
table
There are a lot of books on the table.
Confidence:
Very certain