The treatment of negation in double modal constructions. Battistella, E. L. Linguistic Analysis, 21(1-2):49 – 65, January, 1991.
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The ordering of negatives & auxiliaries in double modal constructions is analyzed to show how the construction supports C. L. Baker's treatment of negation (see LLBA 25/4, 9108709). Using the might could construction cited in Southern English, the internal syntactic structure of double modal construction is illustrated through a discussion of inversion, tag formation, & negation. Treating might as an adverbial modal & could as a true modal at the head of a clause, the analysis is applied to Baker's treatment of negation to validate the modal ordering & categorization of might & could. 27 References. D. Summers
@article{battistella_treatment_1991,
	title = {The treatment of negation in double modal constructions},
	volume = {21},
	issn = {0098-9053},
	abstract = {The ordering of negatives \& auxiliaries in double modal constructions is analyzed to show how the construction supports C. L. Baker's treatment of negation (see LLBA 25/4, 9108709). Using the might could construction cited in Southern English, the internal syntactic structure of double modal construction is illustrated through a discussion of inversion, tag formation, \& negation. Treating might as an adverbial modal \& could as a true modal at the head of a clause, the analysis is applied to Baker's treatment of negation to validate the modal ordering \& categorization of might \& could. 27 References. D. Summers},
	language = {English},
	number = {1-2},
	urldate = {2016-06-02},
	journal = {Linguistic Analysis},
	author = {Battistella, Edwin L.},
	month = jan,
	year = {1991},
	keywords = {American English, English language (Modern), English language Modern, Modal Verbs, Multiple modals, Negation, Regional Dialects, Southern American English dialect, Syntactic Structures, Syntax, Word order, article, double modal auxiliary verb, double modal constructions ordering, C. L. Baker's negation treatment application, Southern English might could example},
	pages = {49 -- 65},
}

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