Dedication ; Frank Palmer's publications ; Preface / Anastasios Tsangalidis, Roberta Facchinetti Section I. The semantics-pragmatics interface: effective vs. epistemic stance, and subjectivity/intersubjectivity in political discourse: a case study / JUANA I. MARÍN-ARRESE Subjectivity, (Non-)subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in English Modality / ROBERTA FACCHINETTI On Controllability as a Contextual Variable / ANNA WÄRNSBY Modality in Discourse: The Pragmatics of Epistemic Modality / LEO FRANCIS HOYE The Use of Modal Verbs in Interpersonal Contexts: From Semantics to Pragmatics / MARTA DEGANI, ELISABETTA ADAMI, ANNA BELLADELLI Section II. The Syntax-semantics Interface: Para/for-infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and English: Similarities and Contrasts in the Grammatical Encoding of Modality / HELOISA MARIA MOREIRA LIMA-SALLES What's So Unreal about the Past? Past Tense and Counterfactuals / LOTTE HOGEWEG Modality of English Conditional Sentences: The Evidence from Ancient Greek / JO WILLMOTT The Expression of Deduction Referring to Past Time within the Verbal Group: An English-Spanish Contrastive Analysis / JUAN RAFAEL ZAMORANO-MANSILLA, MARTA CARRETERO Section III. Focus on Modal Verbs: On the Status of 'Epistemic' Must / FERDINAND DE HAAN Some Observations on (Factual) Could + Perfect Infinitive / ILSE DEPRAETERE Modal Verbs in Modern Greek and English: What's Conceptualization Got to Do with Typology? / EVANGELIA MANIKA On the Role of Context in Interpreting Want as a Volitional or Deontic Verb / PHILIPPE BOURDIN Movement Futures in English and Dutch: A Contrastive Analysis of Be Going To and Gaan / DANIËL VAN OLMEN, TANJA MORTELMANS Notes on Contributors. | 
