Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- I think - an English modal particle / Aijmer, Karin -- Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German and Norwegian conditionals / Leirbukt, Oddleif -- The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics / Ormelius-Sandblom, Elisabet -- Negation and modality in the Germanic languages / Palmer, Frank R. -- Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation / Rosengren, Inger -- Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten / Traugott, Elizabeth Closs -- On the use of brauchen versus müssen / Ulvestad, Bjarne -- Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altså and nemlig / Vaskó, Ildikó / Fretheim, Thorstein -- On narrative declarative VI sentences in German / Önnerfors, Olaf |