Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe the linguistic function of the marker steady in African American English and its link with the speaker’s involvement in productions which exhibit typical examples of steady as it is used by African American speakers. Interviews and songs provide authentic representations of Black English which is characterized as a nonstandard spoken version of the language because of marked differences from General American. Although African American English shares a number of features with other nonstandard varieties, syntactic patterns such as steady + V-ing are rule-governed, so it seems accurate to analyze the structure and its evolution in terms of grammaticality in this particular speech genre.
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