Value C

Language:

Earlier African American Vernacular English

Parameter:

Do as unstressed tense marker

Examples

1. We had fled but I do know 'bout the shelling of Petersburg.

   See Perdue et al. (eds.) 1992: 38

2. We never did pay him, 'cause we ain't never had nothin'.

   See Perdue et al. (eds.) 1992: 14