This book deals with the development of modality from a
crosslinguistic perspective and is closely related to two earlier
volumes on the development of verb and nominal inflection in first
language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30) both methodologically and
theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early
development of the form and function of expressions of deontic and
dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential
propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to
different morphological types and language families (seven
Indo-European and seven non-Indo-European). The analyses are mainly
based on longitudinal observations of children in their 2nd and 3rd
years of life in conversational interaction with their caregivers,
mostly the mothers. Main issues addressed are the development of
directives and modulations of information in terms of certainty and
evidentiality, also taking into account children's developing
social-pragmatic and cognitive skills. One of the main findings is
that agent-oriented and propositional modality may develop in
parallel depending on the typological characteristics of the
language acquired. The decisive factor is whether notions of
propositional modality are grammaticized and obligatorily expressed
in the language. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist
theoretical frameworks (Usage-based theories, Natural Morphology).
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