Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Modalising expressions and modality 1
4. Section I. Moving to modal categories
5. Chapter 2. Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals 19
6. Chapter 3. The scope of modal categories 47
7. Chapter 4. Not just frequency, not just modality 79
8. Chapter 5. How and why seem became an evidential 109
9. Section II. Moving to modal co-text
10. Chapter 6. Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat 143
11. Chapter 7. Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse 173
12. Chapter 8. Present-day English constructions with chance ( s ) in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyond 195
13. Section III. Moving to modal context
14. Chapter 9. A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in English 225
15. Chapter 10. Epistemic modals in academic English 253
16. Chapter 11. On the (con)textual properties of must , have to and shall 281
17. Chapter 12. “The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people” 311
18. Subject Index 343