User:Newellm3/African-American Vernacular English
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Irrealis - Mood[edit]
Irrealis mood marker refers to be in AAVE. In AAVE be can have no tense. When this utterance occurs it is taking the future and the modality to refer to a current event that may be less than real.
Labov, W. (2013). Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English. In African-American English (pp. 110-153). Routledge.