Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System. This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system. A large number of novel observations are offered from a variety of languages including Dutch (Modern and Middle) English German Lele Macedonian Middle Dutch and Slovene. The wealth of data the critical evaluation of existing syntactic analyses of modality and the alternative analyses proposed make the book interesting for both for descriptively and for theoretically oriented syntacticians. Major concerns addressed are: the distinction between epistemic and root modality (where the arguments pro and contra the assumption of a corresponding difference in syntactic structure are evaluated refined and supplemented by arguments for syntactic distinction between necessity and possibility modals and by consideration of the influence of the modals complement on the interpretation) the interaction between modality and clausal phenomena (in particular negation but also imperatives aspect and Aktionsart) and the acquisition of modality (addressing cross linguistic differences in the possibility for root infinitives to express modal interpretations and the late acquisition of epistemic interpretations as compared with non epistemic interpretations). Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System Editorial page Title page LCC data Table of contents List of contributors Preface Current issues in modality Modal verbs Modality and polarity Modals objects and negation in late Middle English On the use and interpretation of root infinitives in early child Dutch Modals and negation in English System interaction in the coding of modality Modality and theory of mind Negative polarity and modality inMiddle Dutch ghe particle constructions (Negative) Imperatives in Slovene Modality and mood inMacedonian Subject index Name index Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today.