List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of abbreviations used in the present volume VII
4. Studying the acquisition of modality: An introduction 1
5. Requests in first language acquisition of German: Evidence from high and low SES families 25
6. Gender differences in the acquisition of requests in Lithuanian 79
7. Development of directive expressions in Russian adult–child communication 113
8. Acquisition of modality in Croatian 159
9. Competition of grammatical forms in the expression of directives in early French child speech and child-directed speech 191
10. On the acquisition of dynamic, deontic and epistemic uses of modal verbs in Romanian 235
11. Development of modality in early Greek language acquisition 255
12. Acquisition of requests in Estonian 315
13. Directives in Finnish language acquisition 347
14. Modality in child Hebrew 379
15. Epistemic modality in Russian child language 421
16. Epistemic and evidential modality in early Turkish child speech 453
17. The development of sentence-ending epistemic/evidential markers in young Korean children 491
18. The acquisition of evidentiality in two Mayan languages, Yukatek and Tojolabal 525
19. Conclusions 555
20. List of Contributors 575
21. Subject Index 577