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Peer reviewedDi Paolo, Marianna – American Speech, 1989
Study of East and West Texans' (N=62) use of double modals as single lexical items and their syntactic and semantic characteristics found that neither Aux nor subcategorization analysis could account for both single-modal and double-modal dialects. Double modals, however, could conceivably be analyzed as two-word lexical items such as idioms or…
Descriptors: Dialects, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns
