AAVE grammar: Difference between “continue to/keep on” vs “steady”
For those who are speaker of AAVE or those are relatively learned in this area, could someone explain to me the context in which one would use "steady" as a aspectual marker, and its difference between "keep on/continue" (beside, of course, certain obvious impossible constructions such as "to steady" compared to "to continue"). I think that I may have an understanding but not fully.
Thank you~
P.S.: By the way, I am an African-American who is not a personal speaker of AAVE, though I live with parents who are and live amongst peers who do speak it. Thus, I do generally understand it and I have been recently studying it.
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For those who are speaker of AAVE or those are relatively learned in this area, could someone explain to me the context in which one would use "steady" as a aspectual marker, and its difference between "keep on/continue" (beside, of course, certain obvious impossible constructions such as "to steady" compared to "to continue"). I think that I may have an understanding but not fully.
Thank you~
P.S.: By the way, I am an African-American who is not a personal speaker of AAVE, though I live with parents who are and live amongst peers who do speak it. Thus, I do generally understand it and I have been recently studying it.
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I think you need to give some examples.
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For those who are speaker of AAVE or those are relatively learned in this area, could someone explain to me the context in which one would use "steady" as a aspectual marker, and its difference between "keep on/continue" (beside, of course, certain obvious impossible constructions such as "to steady" compared to "to continue"). I think that I may have an understanding but not fully.
Thank you~
P.S.: By the way, I am an African-American who is not a personal speaker of AAVE, though I live with parents who are and live amongst peers who do speak it. Thus, I do generally understand it and I have been recently studying it.
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For those who are speaker of AAVE or those are relatively learned in this area, could someone explain to me the context in which one would use "steady" as a aspectual marker, and its difference between "keep on/continue" (beside, of course, certain obvious impossible constructions such as "to steady" compared to "to continue"). I think that I may have an understanding but not fully.
Thank you~
P.S.: By the way, I am an African-American who is not a personal speaker of AAVE, though I live with parents who are and live amongst peers who do speak it. Thus, I do generally understand it and I have been recently studying it.
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I think you need to give some examples.
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