@article{sobin_lexical_2024,
	title = {The lexical source of \textit{{BIN}} and habitual \textit{be} in {\textless}span style="font-variant:small-caps;"{\textgreater}{African} {American} {English}{\textless}/span{\textgreater}},
	issn = {1368-0005, 1467-9612},
	shorttitle = {The lexical source of \textit{{BIN}} and habitual \textit{be} in {\textless}span style="font-variant},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/synt.12269},
	doi = {10.1111/synt.12269},
	abstract = {Abstract 
             
              Although various works on African American English (AAE) offer significant and insightful analyses of the semantic interpretation of its aspectual elements, including in particular stressed remote past 
              BIN 
              and habitual 
              be 
              ( 
              be 
              hab 
              ), the syntactic analysis of these elements is problematic. 
              BIN 
              and 
              be 
              hab 
              are claimed to be invariant lexical elements with fixed semantic values, and to not interact with INFL (Tense) as auxiliaries do, thus not displaying subject–verb agreement or undergoing any operations typical of finite auxiliaries. However, considerations including syntactic positioning, accompanying auxiliaries, patterns of verb affixation, and the formation of active and passive sentences point instead to 
              BIN 
              and 
              be 
              hab 
              being in most instances phonetic manifestations of any of the various ordinary auxiliary verbs 
              be 
              (progressive, passive, and copular), elements of the system of auxiliaries common to both AAE and Mainstream American English (MAE). The surface forms 
              BIN 
              and 
              be 
              are sufficient to trigger their special meanings in logical representation. Semantically dedicated lexical elements are unnecessary. The various interpretations of sentences containing these forms are due to constructional semantic interpretation of various combinations of surface elements. This analysis further reveals the existence of another AAE innovation, a fourth auxiliary verb 
              be 
              unique to AAE indicating simple past.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2024-07-19},
	journal = {Syntax},
	author = {Sobin, Nicholas},
	month = feb,
	year = {2024},
	pages = {synt.12269},
}

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