We offer an analysis of the Greek and Italian future morphemes as epistemic modal
operators. The main empirical motivation comes from the fact that future morphemes have …

A compositional analysis is provided of temporal perspective and orientation (Condoravdi
2002) of modals in Dutch, English, Gitksan (Tsimshianic), and St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) …

This dissertation explores the linguistic expression of attitude reports and comparison in
Navajo (Diné Bizaad, Athabaskan). The investigation has three goals. First, to present …

This paper provides a description of the modal system of Gitksan (Tsimshianic) and places
the Gitksan system within an emerging formal typology of modality. I show that Gitksan …

This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express
both epistemic and “root”(ie non epistemic) flavors. The existing acquisition literature shows …

This grammar offers a grammatical description of the Ngòló variety of Gyeli, an endangered
Bantu (A80) language spoken by 4,000-5,000" Pygmy" hunter-gatherers in southern …

This paper provides a formal analysis of the grammatical encoding of temporal information
in Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), thereby contributing to the recent debate on temporality in …

6.3. 1 Introduction Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event
complexity. This would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event …

Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs of necessity are claimed to be positive polarity items.
We study their behavior by examining modal spread, a phenomenon that appears …

In 1999, Rajesh Bhatt observed a curious interaction between modality and grammatical
aspect: Under imperfective marking, ability modals describe “pure,” potentially unrealized …