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In:Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
[Typological Studies in Language 32] 1995
► pp. vii–viii

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Published online: 21 August 1995
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Table of contents

Introduction1
I. Agent-Oriented and Epistemic Modality15
Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality: Some Observations on German Modals17
The Expression of Root and Epistemic Possibility in English55
Contextuel Conditions for the Interpretation of poder and deber in Spanish67
The Obligation Modality in Western Nilotic Languages107
The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASL135
II. The Interactional Basis of Modality163
The Development of Epistemic Sentence-ending Modal Forms and Functions in Korean Children165
The Interactional Basis of the Mandarin Modal néng ‘can’205
The Discourse and Interactive Functions of Obligation Expressions239
Apprehensional Epistemics293
Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as a Mood329
III. Irrealis Modality and Subjunctive347
The Realis-Irrealis Distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian Languages, and English349
On the Relativity of Irreality367
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The Grammaticalization of Irrealis in Tik Pisin389
The Evaluative Function of the Spanish Subjunctive429
IV. Modality and Other Categories of Grammar451
Negation and the Modals of Possibility and Necessity453
A Functional Theory of Complementizers473
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The Semantic Development of Past Tense Modals in English503
Imperfective and Irrealis519
Subject index553
Language index565
Author index569
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