Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German 19
6. Chapter 3. The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama (‘must’) 41
7. Chapter 4. The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results 65
8. Chapter 5. Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish 83
9. Chapter 6. Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts 109
10. Chapter 7. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan 145
11. Chapter 8. ‘I think’ 165
12. Chapter 9. Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German 185
13. Chapter 10. Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts 213
14. Chapter 11. Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality 239
15. Chapter 12. The perfect in Avar and Andi 261
16. Chapter 13. The different grammars of event singularisation 281
17. Chapter 14. Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses 309
18. Chapter 15. Path scales 335
19. Name Index 357
20. Subject index 363