The current study investigates variation in the marking of two aspectual subcategories of the imperfective in Bahamian English. First, it looks into variable auxiliary be use in progressive and future constructions, that is, the variation between full, contracted and zero be in non-past V-ing environments and related contexts. Second, the paper examines variable application of preverbal does/is/’s in non-past habitual environments. The two variables were selected to represent the ‘informal’ and ‘anti-formal’ group respectively, that is, one feature that classifies as a reduction of English structure and one direct transfer from the creole (Allsopp, 1996, pp. lvi–lvii). Thus, in addition to examining the linguistic constraints, the study will take a close look at the stylistic factors conditioning the variation, placing a special focus on the distribution of the non-standardized variants over various registers as well as how speakers employ them to create linguistic styles.

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巴哈马英语中未完成时的变化

目前的研究调查了巴哈马英语中未完成的两个方面子类别标记的变化。首先，它研究了可变辅助be在渐进式和未来结构中的使用，即在非过去 V- ing环境和相关上下文中完全、收缩和零be之间的变化。其次，本文考察了前语词does / is / 's的变量应用在非过去习惯的环境中。选择这两个变量分别代表“非正式”和“反正式”组，即一个特征被归类为英语结构的减少和一个直接从克里奥尔语转移（Allsopp, 1996, pp. lvi–lvii ). 因此，除了检查语言限制外，该研究还将仔细研究制约变化的文体因素，特别关注非标准化变体在各种语域上的分布以及说话者如何使用它们来创造语言风格。