Heard on Springer: caucasian BIN

[Margaret Lee]

In AAE, it is known as "stressed been" (BIN) and refers to an action that has 
been ocurring for a long time (in the remote past) as opposed to an action in 
the recent past.
 
--Margaret Lee





________________________________
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Fri, May 27, 2011 8:40:17 PM
Subject: Re: Heard on Springer: caucasian BIN

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Darla Wells <lethe9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hear it a lot here in Louisiana, but usually it is "bin doin' "----"I bin
> doin' that," or "I ain't bin doin' that," even more often.

Does this _bin_ receive the strongest stress? I.e., the speaker says,

"I BIN doin' that!"

and not just,

"I bin doin' that."

--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org


------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org