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buravirgil



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
sunrader wrote:
I've followed this debate for a while and it seems reasonable to assume that if Southerners did, in fact, double modals, then we'd see instances of other modals doubled.
Maybe you're a Cantibrigian and not a Yalie.

Should oughta is a given instance of an example outside might/may, but I've heard might oughta, and might should oughta. And there is used to could. All of them are nonstandard and spoken rather than written and I wouldn't teach them. But in defining any grammatical term, I wouldn't exclude descriptive examples on a forum of teachers.

Marianna Di Paulo has this paper addressing double modals as a single lexical item. (JStor) Can't read it without 15 bucks, but maybe she argues they are an adverbal usage.
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johnslat



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know that "might could" is pretty common in the Midwest: Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, etc.

"I might could do that."

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John
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scot47



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is certainly something weird about Modals and Modalities.
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nigel2



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I might could've learnt that when I was a bairn.

Double modals are a feature of a Tyneside dialect. Watch the TV series "Vera" and wait for this pleasure!
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