Stephen J. Nagle

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen J. Nagle is involved.

Nagle, Stephen J. 1994 The English Double Modal Conspiracy Diachronica 11:2, pp. 199–212 | Article

SUMMARY The English double-modal combinations such as might could, used by over 20,000,000 speakers in the southern United States and by much smaller populations in Scotland and Northern Ireland, are nonetheless unknown to speakers of standard and colloquial varieties of other types of English. In… read more

Nagle, Stephen J. 1993 Double Modals in Early English Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 363–370 | Article

Nagle, Stephen J. 1992 Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 269–278 | Article

Nagle, Stephen J. 1991 Nerlich, Brigitte. Change in language: Whitney, Bréal and Wegener Studies in Language 15:2, pp. 506–509 | Squib

Nagle, Stephen J. 1990 Modes of inference and the gradual/rapid issue: suggestions from the English modal Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 353–362 | Article