List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editorial Preface vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Part I: Germanic languages
6. Epistemic modality, Danish modal verbs and the tripartition of utterances 3
7. Epistemic evaluation in factual contexts in English 22
8. SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality 52
9. Part II: Romance languages
10. Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional 69
11. Epistemic modality and perfect morphology in Spanish and French 103
12. Anchoring evidential, epistemic and beyond in discourse: alào, vantér and vér in Noirmoutier island (Poitevin-Saintongeais) 131
13. A prosody account of (inter)subjective modal adverbs in Spanish 153
14. French expressions of personal opinion: je crois / pense / trouve / estime / considère que p 179
15. Mirative extensions in Romance: evidential or epistemic? 196
16. The Italian epistemic future and Russian epistemic markers as linguistic manifestations of conjectural conclusion: a comparative analysis 217
17. Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use 242
18. Evidentiality, epistemic modality and negation in Lithuanian: revisited 259
19. Part IV: Non Indo-European languages
20. Two kinds of epistemic modality in Hungarian 281
21. Epistemic modalities in spoken Tibetan 296
22. Intersubjectification revisited: a cross-categorical perspective 319
23. Inference crisscross: Disentangling evidence, stance and (inter)subjectivity in Yucatec Maya 346
24. Part V: Theoretical perspectives
25. Epistemic modality and evidentiality from an enunciative perspective 383
26. About Contributors 403
27. Author Index 409
28. Subject Index 414
29. Language Index 421