What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contributors vii
4. Table of contents ix
5. Introduction: Theory of mind elements across languages. Traces of Bühler’s legacy in modern linguistics 1
6. Part I. The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement
7. Epistemicity, Evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM) 39
8. Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure? 67
9. Exploring the Theory of Mind interface 109
10. The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions 147
11. Traces of Bühler’s semiotic legacy in modern linguistics 211
12. Part II. Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages
13. Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force 253
14. Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface 297
15. Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles 335
16. The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German Modal Particles and the typological challenge 361
17. Construction-dependent person hierarchies 383
18. Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese 405
19. What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective 425
20. General index 455