In spite of being exclusively regional phenomenon, Double Modals are significant and commonly acknowledged realia of Modern American English. Like the other multiword modals they are taking their own function in human communication processes.
Double Modals as Single Lexical Items In American English. An important problem faced by modern studies of the American English auxiliary verbs is preventing the iteration of modals as in sentence : 1. I could must do that. In general, there have been two main approaches for ruling out such sequences of modals: the Phrase-Structure (P-S) rule approach based on the Auxiliary analysis which relies on P-S rules containing only one modal per surface clause; and the subcategorization approach as a part of the Main Verb analysis , which assumes that modals are finite forms and are subcategorized for stem forms. One problem that both types of analyses face is that there are large numbers of English speakers in the USA, most notably in the South Midland and Southern United States, who regularly use double modals (D-M). 2.I don’t think I have any grants you might could apply for. 3.We might can go up there next Sunday. 4.I may could at Finger’s. 5.You know, if you drank a half a drink,you might oughta go ho- me and sl
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