double modals

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/5/00 4:08:40 PM, flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU writes:

<< I'm not at all sure how to interpret double modals, since they're rare in
this area.  Bethany Dumas is the expert on them--can you help us, Bethany? >>

In addition to what Bethany has written on multiple modals, but here are
three articles that I've published on the subject:

"Acceptability Judgments for Double Modals in Southern Dialects," _New Ways
of Analyzing Variation in English_, ed. by Charles-James N. Bailey and Roger W
. Shuy (Washington, DC: Georgetown U. Press, 1973), 276–86. [papers from the
First Annual NWAVE Conference]

*“Multiple Modals in United States Black English: Synchronic and Diachronic
Aspects,” _Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole_, ed. by Walter
F. Edwards and Donald Winford (Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1991), 165–76.

“Historical and Contemporary Distribution of Double Modals in English.”
_FOCUS ON: The United States. Varieties of English Around the World_ (Manfred
Görlach, General Editor), vol. 16. Ed. by Edgar Schneider (Amsterdam:
Benjamins, 1996), 265–88. [Barbara Fennell, first author]