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Part 1 Agent-oriented and epistemic modality: agent-oriented vs.epistemic modality - some observations on German models, Bernd Heine; Theexpression of root and epistemic possibility in English, Jennifer Coates;Contextual conditions for the interpretation of "poder" and "deber" inSpanish, Carmen Silva-Corvalan; The obligation modality in Western Niloticlanguages, Edith Bavin; The gestural expression of modality in ASL, ShermanWilcox and Phyllis Wilcox. Part 2 The interaction basis of modality: Thedevelopment of epistemic sentence-ending modal forms and functions in Koreanchildren, Soonja Choi; The interactional basis of the Mandarin modal neng"can", Jiansheng Guo; The discourse and interactive functions of obligationexpressions, John Myhill; Apprehensional epistemics, Frantisek Lichtenberk;Moods and metamessages: Alienation as a mood, John Haiman. Part 3 Irrealismodality and subjunctive: the realis-irrealis distinction in Caddo, theNorthern Iroquoian languages, and English, Wallace Chafe; on the relativityof irreality, Marianne Mithun; The grammaticalization of irrealis in TokPisin, Suzanne Romaine; The evaluative function of Spanish subjunctive,Patricia V. Lunn. Part 4 Modality and other categories of grammar: negationand the modals of possibility and necessity, Frank Palmer; A functionaltheory of complementizers, Zygmunt Frajzyngier; The semantic development ofpast tense modals in English, John Bybee; Imperfective and irrealis, SuzanneFleischman.