This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on

This work, which is both theoretical and descriptive, covers the entire range of modal expressions in English. It is organized so that the more general issues a

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 volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its ma

Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses