Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction to Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and insights 1
4. Part I: Contributions of different methods for studying modality
5. 1 Fieldwork techniques in semantics 15
6. 2 Studying modality through targeted construction storyboards 47
7. 3 Discourse contexts targeting modality in fieldwork: A revised modal questionnaire 95
8. 4 Using corpora to investigate modal-temporal interactions 141
9. 5 Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages 191
10. Part II: Lessons from case studies on underdescribed languages
11. 6 On applying semantic fieldwork elicitation techniques to describe modality in Ye’kwana 237
12. 7 Modality in elicited data and spontaneous texts: A case study of Atayal 257
13. 8 Lessons from the field: Irrealis mood in Lung’Ie 295
14. 9 Analyzing ʔayʔaǰuθəm evidentials: Evidence for epistemic modality 337
15. 10 Parameters for the production of discourse contexts: Eliciting the semantics of obligations and desires in Mapudungun 391
16. Subject index 421