Part of
Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutionsEdited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
[Typological Studies in Language 79] 2008
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
[Typological Studies in Language 79] 2008
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
List of contributors
Prefaceix
Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages
General1
On the logic of generalizations about cross-linguistic aspect-modality links
The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity: A chapter in diachronic typology
Propositional aspect and the development of modal inferences in English
Towards an understanding of the progressive form in English: The Imperative as a heuristic tool
Epistemic modality and aspect contingency in Armenian, Russian, and German
Slavic117
Indefiniteness and imperfectivity as micro-grammatical contexts of epistemicity in German-Slovene translations
The connections between modality, aspectuality, and temporality in Modern Russian
Aspectual coercion in Bulgarian negative imperatives
Russian modals možet 'can' and dolžen 'must' selecting the imperfective in negative contexts
African213
Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa)
The modal system of the Igbo language
Asian277
The aspect-modality link in the Japanese verbal complex and beyond
The aspect-modality link in Japanese: The case of the evaluating sentence
Amerindian329
The Lakota aspect/modality markers -kinica and tkhá
Creole357
A note on modality and aspect in Saramaccan
Diachronic369
Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages
The autopsy of a modal – insights from the historical development of German
Index of authors
Index of subjects
This article is available free of charge.
