List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Theoretical foundations
7. The definition of modality 21
8. The English present 45
9. The organization of the German clausal grounding system 87
10. Grounding in terms of anchoring relations 109
11. Part II. Descriptive application
12. Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of “more” and “less” grounding predications 137
13. New current relevance in Croatian 159
14. Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing 181
15. Part III. Descriptive application
16. Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality 217
17. Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai 249
18. The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait 279
19. Name Index 311
20. Subject Index 315