Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/A-prefixing on ing-forms

Variety: Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature: A-prefixing on ing-forms
Value: B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants: Alexander Kautzsch

Examples

Example 1284:
He was goin' through de papers an' a-burnin' some when he found de one 'bout me.

Source: Rawick (eds.) 1977/1979: 1311