Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Agent-oriented vs. epistemic modality : Some observations on German modals / Bernd Heine
  • The Expression of root and epistemic possibility in English / Jennifer Coates
  • Contextual conditions for the interpretation of poder and deber in Spanish / Carmen Silva-Corvalán
  • The Obligation modality in western nilotic languages / Edith Bavin
  • The Gestural expression of modality in ASL / Sherman Wilcox, Phyllis Wilcox
  • The Development of epistemic sentence-ending modal forms and functions in Korean children / Soonja Choi
  • The Interactional basis of the mandarin modal néng can / Jiansheng Guo
  • The Discourse and interactive functions of obligation expressions / John Myhill, Laura A. Smith
  • Apprehensional epistemics / Frantisek Lichtenberk
  • Moods and metamessages : Alienation as a mood / John Haiman
  • The Realis-irrealis distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian languages, and English / Wallace Chafe
  • On the relativity of irreality / Marianne Mithun
  • The Grammaticalization of irrealis in tok pisin / Suzanne Romaine
  • The Evaluative function of the Spanish subjunctive / Patricia V. Lunn
  • Negation and the modals of possibility and necessity / Frank Palmer
  • A functional theory of complementizers / Zygmunt Frajzyngier
  • The Semantic development of past tense modals in English / John Bybee
  • Imperfective and irrealis / Zuzanne Fleischman