The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links.
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in t
This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary o
This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical an