Home
Varieties
Features
Informants
Examples
Sources
Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Like as a focussing device
Variety:
Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature:
Like as a focussing device
Value:
C - feature exists, but is extremely rare
Informants:
Alexander Kautzsch
cite
Examples
Example 1338:
They'd have prayer meeting, you know from one house to the other you know how the house, like there's a house sitting here in a section, in line, you know, an' people would come to prayer meeting.
Source:
Bailey et al. (eds.) 1991
: 82
×