Part 1.The concept of modality — possibility, necessity and other related concepts

Chance, necessity, mirativity and a few other modal notions12

Paul Larreya

Necessity and possibility: Variations and mirror games28

Viviane Arigne

English copular perception verbs: At the crossroads of evidentiality and epistemicity52

Christelle Lacassain

The argumentative anchoring of possibility and necessity indications in French, Italian and Slovak87

Corinne Rossari

Claudia Ricci

Iveta Walther (Dinžíková)

How true is scientific discourse? A comparative study of epistemicity in on-page and on-screen media117

Stefania Consonni

Part 2.Modal verbs and auxiliaries

Preterite-presents and modality140

Pierre Cotte

On the semantics of English modal expressions: Towards an Integrative Grammar166

Grégory Furmaniak

Hedged performatives across time: Report on a pilot study186

Lucie Latouche

Ilse Depraetere

Entailment, necessity and time relations in some non prototypical conditional constructions217

Christiane Rocq-Migette

Interroger la modalité à partir des verbes modaux danois235

Bénédicte Van Gysel

À propos de convenit, il convient, prosēkei, et les autres: Préverbation de ‘venir’ et marquage de la congruence254

Philippe Bourdin

From possibility to necessity: The development of to relative infinitives in Old English293

Olivier Simonin

The cabins (can) sleep four — possibility in the capacitive structure in English310

Caroline Marty

Enablement and (im)possibility: The case of let. Studies on a Keatsian corpus326

Katrina Brannon

‘Can I just finish?’: The interplay between modality and force dynamics in strategies for holding the floor in political discourse336

Robert Butler

Index