Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Never as preverbal past tense negator

Variety: Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature: Never as preverbal past tense negator
Value: B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants: Alexander Kautzsch

Examples

Example 1296:
I never went to school a day in my life, not a hour.

Source: Bailey et al. (eds.) 1991: 48