Chapter 11. Conclusion and final remarks

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgements xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Modality and subordinators in the language of the world
7. Chapter 2. Modality 15
8. Chapter 3. The morphosyntactic status of modality 55
9. Chapter 4. Subordinators and modality 91
10. Chapter 5. Investigation of semantic, functional, and notational similarities between propositional modality and subordinators in the languages of the world 111
11. Part II. Modality and subordinators in the Germanic languages
12. Chapter 6. The Germanic indicative and subjunctive as propositional modality markers 127
13. Chapter 7. Modal markers and word order in the Germanic languages 149
14. Chapter 8. General subordinators and propositional modality in the Germanic languages 173
15. Chapter 9. Speech-act modality 225
16. Chapter 10. Relative and adverbial subordinators 239
17. Chapter 11. Conclusion and final remarks 267
18. Appendix A. Two typological surveys of the morphosyntactic status of propositional modality 285
19. Appendix B. Sources for the typological surveys 307
20. References 323
21. Language index 337
22. Subject index 339