24.2493, FYI: Multimo: The Database of Multiple Modals

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Subject: 24.2493, FYI: Multimo: The Database of Multiple Modals

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:54:23
From: Paul Reed [reedpe at email.sc.edu]
Subject: Multimo: The Database of Multiple Modals

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Would you might know what a Multiple Modal is?  Auxiliary verb phrases that
combine two (might could, may can) or occasionally three (might should ought
to) modal or semi-modal verbs have been well documented in the Southern United
States but also in the British Isles (especially Scotland and northern
England) and in the Caribbean.  However, as for many areas of English grammar,
this documentation is so dispersed that making comparisons, achieving broad
pictures, and exploring particular avenues of patterning are all made very
challenging.
 
Therefore, we announce the formal launch of MULTIMO: The Database of Multiple
Modals, A New Resource for Researchers, hosted at the University of South
Carolina.

http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/multimo/

MULTIMO is an interactive website on multiple modal constructions in English
that features a library of information and materials, including the following:

–	an annotated linguistic bibliography of nearly one hundred published
references.
–	commentaries on the status and usage of multiple modals, 
–	a database of more than 2,100 examples drawn from every source the creators
of MULTIMO have been able to track down: more than a century of published
scholarship as well as extensive private collections and systematic fieldwork,
and naturalistic observations as well as intuitions and guided elicitations.
Each example is organized in tabular fashion according to social (gender,
race/ethnicity, age, level of education achieved), geographical (hometown of
user, location where collected), linguistic (sentence type, medium) and other
categories, where such information is known from its source.  The database can
be sorted according to one or more categories simultaneously.
–	opportunities to help the website grow by contributing examples, commentary,
and bibliographical references.

Such an extensive bibliography and a large bank of examples might seem to
suggest that little about multiple modals remains to be researched and
understood.  The creators of MULTIMO believe that the contrary is much closer
to the truth and have built the website so that researchers everywhere can
access the wealth of scholarship to test and explore new hypotheses.  The
creators hope that anyone with a contribution or suggestion to make will be in
contact with them.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax





 






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