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

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical an

This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between synt