The Belgian Journal of Linguistics is a yearly publication devoted to a specific theme determined by the topics of the meetings of the Linguistic Society of Belgium.

Table of Contents

Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale Introduction

Delia Bentley Metonomy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from Italo-Romance

Gabriele Diewald A Basic Semantic Template for Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses of the German Modals

Kleanthes K. Grohmann Null Modals in Germanic (and Romance): Infinitival Exclamatives

Jacqueline Gueron From Need to Necessity: A Syntactic Path to Modality

Javier Gutierrez-Rexach The Semanitcs of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic Account

Paul Larreya Modal Verbs and the Expression of Futurity in English, French and Italian

Tanja Mortelmans On the 'Evidential' Nature of the 'Epistemic' Use of the German Modals mussen and sollen

Virginia Motopanyane and Larisa Avram The Syntax of putea and its Mixed Typology

Fatima Oliveira Some Issues about the Protuguese Modals dever and poder

Aurelia Usoniene On the Modality of the English Verbs of Seeming

Mieke Van Herreweghe *Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records

Maria Eugenia Vazquez-Laslop Epistemic prometer and Full Deontic Modal Verbs