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 the field examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved.

The Contributors 1: Jan Nuyts: Surveying Modality and Mood: An introduction 2: Johan van der Auwera and Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar: The History of Modality and Mood Part I: The Semantics of Modality and Mood 3: Jan Nuyts: Analyses of the Modal Meanings 4: Mario Squartini: Interactions between Modality and Other Semantic Categories 5: Irina Nikolaeva: Analyses of the Semantics of Mood Part II: The Expression of Modality and Mood 6: Heiko Narrog: The Expression of Non-Epistemic Modal Categories 7: Kasper Boye: The Expression of Epistemic Modality 8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Sentence Types 9: Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sansò: The Linguistic Marking of (Ir)Realis and Subjunctive 10: Andrej Malchukov and Viktor S. Xrakovskij: The Linguistic Interaction of Mood with Modality and Other Categories Part III: Sketches of Modality and Mood Systems 11: Marianne Mithun: Modality and Mood in Iroquoian 12: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Modality and Mood in Chadic 13: Hilary Chappell and Alain Peyraube: Modality and Mood in Sinitic 14: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Modality and Mood in Oceanic 15: Daniel Van Olmen and Johan van der Auwera: Modality and Mood in Standard Average European Part IV: Wider Perspectives on Modality and Mood 16: Debra Ziegeler: The Diachrony of Modality and Mood 17: Björn Hansen and Umberto Ansaldo: Areality in Modality and Mood 18: Maya Hickmann and Dominique Bassano: Modality and Mood in First Language Acquisition 19: Barbara Shaffer and Terry Janzen: Modality and Mood in American Sign Language Part V: Theoretical Approaches 20: Katrin Axel-Tober and Remus Gergel: Modality and Mood in Formal Syntactic Approaches 21: Karin Aijmer: Modality and Mood in Functional Linguistic Approaches 22: Ronny Boogaart and Egbert Fortuin: Modality and Mood in Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammars 23: Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann: Modality and Mood in Formal Semantics References Person index Languages index Subject index

Surveys the current state of the art on the semantics and the linguistic expression of modality and mood Considers the expression of modality and mood in a range of typologicall diverse languages Surveys not only grammatical devices but also lexical devices for expressing modality and mood Uses consistent and parecise terminological conventions Features an introductory section including a chapter on the historical origins and development of the notions of modality and mood

Jan Nuyts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His main research area is cognitive-functional semantics. His current focus of attention concerns the cognitive and functional structure of qualificational categories - and the modal categories in particular - and their linguistic expressions, synchronically and diachronically, and what one can learn from them about human cognition. Johan van der Auwera is Professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp, and editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics. His current research focuses on grammatical semantics and typology (including areal typology and dialectology), with special reference to mood, modality, negation, indefinites, and impersonals.

Surveys the current state of the art on the semantics and the linguistic expression of modality and mood Considers the expression of modality and mood in a range of typologicall diverse languages Surveys not only grammatical devices but also lexical devices for expressing modality and mood Uses consistent and parecise terminological conventions Features an introductory section including a chapter on the historical origins and development of the notions of modality and mood