Abstract
The study of mood and modality in grammar was, in previous years, largely affected by the influence of philosophical logic and its association with notions of possibility and necessity. A review of typological, comparative data reveals that description in linguistic terms is far from uniform across languages and has little to do with modal logic, the ideal approach to analyzing modality and its expression in grammar being from a diachronic perspective. In such an approach, the diversity in present-day categorization can be predicted from the various historical source forms associated with each modal type, via the general principles of pragmatic inferencing in the context of everyday discourse.
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