Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of
modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of
what we know about modal expressions across the world's language is
still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of
modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base
by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including
storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks,
as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques.
The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on
underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language
families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools,
while also indicating the successes and challenges of their
contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of
underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into
our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our
understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.
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