Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 2A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German
19
Chapter 3The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama (‘must’)
41
Chapter 4The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results
65
Chapter 5Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish: A cognitive and cross-linguistic perspective
83
Chapter 6Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts
109
Chapter 7Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan: A diachronic cognitive approach to the semantics of modal verbs
145
Chapter 8
‘I think’: An enunciative and corpus-based perspective
165
Chapter 9Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German: On two types of evidentials
185
Chapter 10Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts
213
Chapter 11Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality: The Lithuanian accusativus cum participio in a cross-linguistic perspective
239
Chapter 12The perfect in Avar and Andi: Cross-linguistic variation among two closely-related East Caucasian languages
261
Chapter 13The different grammars of event singularisation: A cross-linguistic corpus study
281
Chapter 14Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses: A corpus-driven look on French passé composé and imparfait
309
Chapter 15Path scales: Directed-motion verbs, prepositions and telicity in European Portuguese
335
Index
357
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