Editing Auxiliary verb (section)

=== List of auxiliaries unique to African American Vernacular English ===
[[African-American Vernacular English|African American Vernacular English]] makes a variety of finer [[Tense–aspect–mood|tense/aspect]] distinctions than other dialects of English by making use of unique variant forms of, in particular: [[Habitual be|habitual 'be']], reduced 'done' (dən), and stressed 'been' (BIN):<ref>{{Cite book|last=Green, Lisa J., 1963–|title=African American English : a linguistic introduction|date=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-511-07823-4|location=Cambridge, U.K.|oclc=57572547}}</ref><ref>Green, Lisa J. & Walter Sistrunk. 2015. Syntax and Semantics in African American English. In Jennifer Bloomquist, [[Lisa Green (linguist)|Lisa J. Green]] & [[Sonja Lanehart|Sonja L. Lanehart]] (eds.), ''The Oxford Handbook of African American Language''. Oxford University Press. {{doi|10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795390.013.15}} http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199795390-e-15 (10 June 2020).</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Verbal Auxiliaries in AAVE
!Auxiliary
!Meaning
!Example
|-
|be
|[[Habitual aspect|habitual]] aspect
|She '''be''' telling people she eight.
'She is always telling people she's eight'
|-
|done
|[[resultative]] modality
|I '''done''' pushed it.

'I have (already) pushed it'
|-
|been
|[[Past tense|distant past]] tense
|I '''been''' knew that.

'I've known that for a long time'
|}