Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Theoretical preliminaries
Necessity and obligation
Possibility, permission and ability
Prediction and volition
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index

About the Author

Peter Collins is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics Department at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, and helped compile the first corpus of Australian English. He has published widely in corpus linguistics and descriptive grammar.

Reviews

”This book is an excellent and timely quantitative study, and a solid starting point for further research” in: English Language and Linguistics, Vol. 17/1 (2013)