2. Modals in the Germanic languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Abbreviations used in glossing xii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. A. Modals in Indo-European languages (Western branch)
7. 2. Modals in the Germanic languages 11
8. 3. Modals in Irish 71
9. 4. Modals in the Romance languages 107
10. 5. Modals in Greek 139
11. B. Modals in Indo-European languages (Eastern branch)
12. 6. Modals in the Slavonic languages 167
13. 7. Modals in Baltic 199
14. 8. Modals in Albanian 229
15. 9. Modality in Romani 267
16. C. Modals in Non-Indo-European languages
17. 10. The grammaticalisation of modal auxiliaries in Maltese and Arabic vernaculars of the Mediterranean area 325
18. 11. Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic 363
19. 12. Modals in Hungarian 403
20. 13. Mood and modality in Berber 431
21. 14. Modality in Basque 457
22. 15. Modals in Turkic 487
23. 16. Concluding chapter: modal constructions in the languages of Europe 511
24. Backmatter 561