Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Levelling of the difference between present perfect and simple past: simple past for StE present perfect

Variety: Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature: Levelling of the difference between present perfect and simple past: simple past for StE present perfect
Value: B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants: Alexander Kautzsch

Examples

Example 1264:
The biggest whipping, that ever I knowed.

Source: Bailey et al. (eds.) 1991: 71