By "irregularities," I mean "incorrect usage in a prescriptivist sense," not irregular forms. Like the difference between "I run" and "I be running." But you are the linguist, so you will have to tell me. 

If you're talking about "I be running" meaning "I am running", that's not a subjunctive. But if it's a counterfactual in a subordinate clause, like "He ordered that I be silent", that's a subjunctive. I think, however, that you're talking about the former.
Although I can speak elements of that dialect as well, there isn't as much of a use of should/could in a contrary-to-fact sentence in American dialects, particularly Southern ones. The If...were/would construction is very common, although with the frowned-upon "If I be late, I would be in trouble." It's not necessarily "correct" written grammar, but it certainly shows how the subjunctive has survived more in certain NA dialects.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
50-book challenge complete!
- 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM
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What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM*
- 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM
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I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him.
- 01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM
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Good job, Tim!
- 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM
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Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel.
- 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM
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Me too.
- 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM
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You counted a book about contract law???
- 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM
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fnords!!!!!
- 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM
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by the way
- 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM
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Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into...
- 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM
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The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM*
- 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM
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Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge.
- 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM
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I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge.
- 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM
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It's a textbook, not a case book.
- 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM
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I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books.
- 03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM
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Re: You counted a book about contract law???
- 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM
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We both speak Spanish already.
- 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM
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Do you really figure...
- 05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM
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I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but...
- 05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM
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I think you should teach her Koine before French
- 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM
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If I could convince my wife, I would
- 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM
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There's always Amharic, I suppose
- 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM
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For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic
- 05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM
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Well, at least it's not Klingon!
- 05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM
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I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask?
- 07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM
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Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome.
- 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM
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I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's.
- 07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM
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Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine.
- 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM
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I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased.
- 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM
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What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum?
- 02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM
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Because I'm not American.
- 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM
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Yes, but you lot have lost so much more...
- 03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM
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Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain?
- 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM
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Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive...
- 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM
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Are you talking about African-American English?
- 03/01/2010 11:34:30 PM
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I think he is
- 03/01/2010 11:43:24 PM
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Would y'all (
) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
- 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
- 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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Not exactly
- 05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM
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All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible.
- 06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM
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Aaah.
- 03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM
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I should have mentioned...
- 03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM
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Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think.
- 05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM
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If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM*
- 05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM
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I finished with 90 books.
- 09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM
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