Studies on English Modality: in honour of Frank Palmer

Contents: Anastasios Tsangalidis/Roberta Facchinetti: Preface - Juana I. Marin-Arrese: Effective vs. Epistemic Stance, and Subjectivity/Intersubjectivity in Political Discourse. A Case Study - Roberta Facchinetti: Subjectivity, (Non-)subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in English Modality - Anna Warnsby: On Controllability as a Contextual Variable - Leo Francis Hoye: Modality in Discourse: The Pragmatics of Epistemic Modality - Marta Degani/Elisabetta Adami/Anna Belladelli: The Use of Modal Verbs in Interpersonal Contexts: From Semantics to Pragmatics - Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles: Para/for-infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and English: Similarities and Contrasts in the Grammatical Encoding of Modality - Lotte Hogeweg: What's So Unreal about the Past? Past Tense and Counterfactuals - Jo Willmott: Modality of English Conditional Sentences: The Evidence from Ancient Greek - Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla/Marta Carretero: The Expression of Deduction Referring to Past Time within the Verbal Group: An English-Spanish Contrastive Analysis - Ferdinand de Haan: On the Status of 'Epistemic' Must - Ilse Depraetere: Some Observations on (Factual) Could + Perfect Infinitive - Evangelia Manika: Modal Verbs in Modern Greek and English: What's Conceptualization Got to Do with Typology? - Philippe Bourdin: On the Role of Context in Interpreting Want as a Volitional or Deontic Verb - Daniel Van Olmen/Tanja Mortelsmans: Movement Futures in English and Dutch. A Contrastive Analysis of Be Going To and Gaan.