Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages xi
6. General
7. On the logic of generalizations about cross-linguistic aspect-modality links 3
8. The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity: A chapter in diachronic typology 15
9. Propositional aspect and the development of modal inferences in English 43
10. Towards an understanding of the progressive form in English: The Imperative as a heuristic tool 81
11. Epistemic modality and aspect contingency in Armenian, Russian, and German 97
12. Slavic
13. Indefiniteness and imperfectivity as micro-grammatical contexts of epistemicity in German-Slovene translations 119
14. The connections between modality, aspectuality, and temporality in Modern Russian 147
15. Aspectual coercion in Bulgarian negative imperatives 175
16. Russian modals možet 'can' and dolžen 'must' selecting the imperfective in negative contexts 197
17. African
18. Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa) 215
19. The modal system of the Igbo language 241
20. Asian
21. The aspect-modality link in the Japanese verbal complex and beyond 279
22. The aspect-modality link in Japanese: The case of the evaluating sentence 309
23. Amerindian
24. The Lakota aspect/modality markers - kinica and tkhá 331
25. Creole
26. A note on modality and aspect in Saramaccan 359
27. Diachronic
28. Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages 371
29. The autopsy of a modal – insights from the historical development of German 385
30. Index of authors 417
31. Index of subjects 419