eWAVE - Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Do as unstressed tense marker

Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Do as unstressed tense marker

Variety:	Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature:	Do as unstressed tense marker
Value:	C - feature exists, but is extremely rare
Informants:	Alexander Kautzsch

Example 1268:: We had fled but I do know 'bout the shelling of Petersburg.

Source: Perdue et al. (eds.) 1992: 38
Example 1269:: We never did pay him, 'cause we ain't never had nothin'.

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