aspectual be
noun
linguistics
: the use of the verb be in its uninflected form (as in "she be jogging") or sometimes in the form bes or be's in African American English and to varying degrees in some other varieties of English to indicate that an action or state is habitual or frequent : habitual be, invariant be
Aspectual be denotes habitual or iterative meaning.—Lisa J. Green
Note: The feature of African American English called aspectual be often occurs between the subject and predicate of a sentence, and can precede noun phrases, prepositional phrases, adverbial phrases, adjectives, passive verbs, -ing verbs, and the African American English feature perfective done.
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