The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood (Oxford Handbooks)

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. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics. The Semantics Of Modality And Mood -- The Expression Of Modality And Mood -- Sketches Of Modality And Mood Systems -- Wider Perspectives On Modality And Mood -- Theoretical Approaches. Surveying Modality And Mood: An Introduction / Jan Nuyts -- The History Of Modality And Mood / Johan Van Der Auwera And Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar -- Analyses Of The Modal Meanings / Jan Nuyts -- Interactions Between Modality And Other Semantic Categories / Mario Squartini -- Analyses Of The Semantics Of Mood / Irina Nikolaeva -- The Expression Of Non-epistemic Modal Categories / Heiko Narrog -- The Expression Of Epistemic Modality / Kasper Boye -- Sentence Types / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- The Linguistic Marking Of (ir)realis And Subjunctive / Caterina Mauri And Andrea Sansò -- The Linguistic Interaction Of Mood With Modality And Other Categories / Andrej L. Malchukov And Viktor S. Xrakovskij -- Modality And Mood In Iroquoian / Marianne Mithun -- Modality And Mood In Chadic / Zygmunt Frajzyngier -- Modality And Mood In Sinitic / Hilary Chappell And Alain Peyraube -- Modality And Mood In Oceanic / Frantisek Lightenberk -- Modality And Mood In Standard Average European / Daniël Van Olmen And Johan Van Der Auwera -- The Diachrony Of Modality And Mood / Debra Ziegeler -- Areality In Modality And Mood / Debra Ziegeler -- Areality In Modality And Mood / Björn Hansen And Umberto Ansaldo -- Modality And Mood In First Language Acquisition / Maya Hickmann And Dominique Bassano -- Modality And Mood In American Sign Language / Barbara Shaffer And Terry Janzen -- Modality And Mood In Formal Syntactic Approaches / Katrin Axel-tober And Remus Gergel -- Modality And Mood In Functional Linguistic Approaches / Karin Aijmer -- Modality And Mood In Cognitivie Linguistics And Construction Grammars / Ronny Boogaart And Egbert Fortuin -- Modality And Mood In Formal Semantics / Magdalena Kaufmann And Stefan Kaufmann. Edited By Jan Nuyts And Johan Van Der Auwera. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 559-620) And Indices.