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double modal en · NOUN
Meanings
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A sequence of two modal verbs, such as "might could", an impossible construction in standard English, but one used in some dialects, especially Southern US English.
The first instances of double modals date back to the seventeenth century.
2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI:
Forms
Relateds
modal stacking
Synonyms
stacked modal