Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Modality and Mood in Romance: An introduction 1
4. I. Modal interpretation
5. Modal readings of sentence connectives in German and Portuguese 15
6. ‘Modal uses’ of the Italian imperfetto and the Spanish imperfecto: a comparison 39
7. Modal non-finite relatives in Romance 67
8. Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their definition on a deictic basis 95
9. Where mood, modality and illocution meet: the morphosyntax of Romance conjectures 109
10. II. Mood selection and mood alternation
11. Modality, context change potential and mood selection in European Portuguese 133
12. On the (un)stability of mood distribution in Romance 163
13. Grammaticalization and language comparison in the Romance mood system 181
14. Principles of mood change in evaluative contexts: the case of French 209
15. Backmatter 235