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Modality refers to the attitudes a speaker can adopt toward the propositional content of an utterance including, among others, possibility and necessity. After introducing different theoretical perspectives on this concept, this manual presents the markers of modality (moods, modal verbs, adverbs) in Romance languages. It also addresses diachronic questions and the overlaps between modality and other grammatical categories.
This volume, translated into French from the Russian [Jazyk drevnejsej irlandskoj poezii] by Yves Le Berre and edited by Hildegard L. C. Tristram is the only analysis and discussion to date of the language, style and metrics of the earliest Old Irish poetry. This poetry is oral-derived and reflects the poetic practices of the pre-christian and therefore preliterate period of Irish culture. Much of it is related by Kalyguine to the magical understanding of shaman- like poetic practices.