Double modals in the Southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures?

Modality in Contemporary English

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 349-371

  Nagle, Stephen J ^a  

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110895339.349     Document Type: Chapter

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