Download or read book Modality and Mood in Romance written by Martin G. Becker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section “Mood and Modality in Romance”. The Romance languages studied here include Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and French. All contributions thematically explore the status and importance of modality and mood and their reciprocal relationships with reference to theoretical approaches.