In:Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
[Studies in Language Companion Series 149] 2014
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 January 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.149.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Formal properties of modality
1 Formal properties of modality
Interpreting modals by phase heads
Evidentiality straddling T- and C-domains
Part II. Typological surveys
The syntax of modal polyfunctionality revisited: Evidence from the languages of Europe
Mora da as a marker of modal meanings in Macedonian: On correlations between categorial restrictions and morphosyntactic behaviour
Modal semantics and morphosyntax of the Latvian DEBITIVE
Deontic or epistemic? habēre as a modal marker of future certainty in Macedonian
Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese
Part III. Interfaces between mood and modality
Modal particles in rationale clauses and related constructions
Modal particles in causal clauses: The case of German weil wohl
Part IV. Modality conceptualizations
Enablement and possibility
The modal category of sufficiency
Part V. Diachronic derivation
From agent-oriented modality to sequential: The polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande)
Part VI. Covert modality
A rare case of covert modality: Spoken Polish and the novel periphrastic past with mieć ‘have’
(C)Overt epistemic modality and its perspectival effects on the textual surface
Dimensions of implicit modality in Igbo
Index
