eWAVE - Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses

Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses

Variety:	Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature:	Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses
Value:	B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants:	Alexander Kautzsch

Example 1303:: Dey's some writin' on his grave-stone dey say tell how come he got killed.

Source: Rawick (eds.) 1977/1979: 226
Example 1304:: Lissen it's no time fo' doin' evil fo' evil or eye fo' a eye.

Source: Hyatt 1970-1978: 4518