This book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality. Covert Modality is modality which we interpret but which is not associated with a
This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical an
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialog
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has reveal
