1204
source:
Butters
Entry:
1204
Example:
Bob Cushaw [of Andrews NC] says he would like his wife to quit her babysitting job. “If you come back here in one year, I may can say I now own this or I now own that, but I’ll talk to you just as I am today.”
Modal 1:
may
Modal 2:
can
Gender:
Male
Race/Ethnicity:
Black
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
Unknown
Location Collected:
NC (Unknown)
Medium:
Spoken
Sentence Structure:
1.2
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Cited from Durham Morning Herald, February 25, 1987, p. 1A, as cited in Butters, Ronald. 1991. “Multiple Modals in United States Black English,” p. 168.