Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries in Contemporary German

Intro; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. BACKGROUND; 2. SEMOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE MODAL SYSTEM; 3. THE IMMINENT MODALS: MUSS AND WILL; 4 THE PRECARIOUS MODALS: DARF AND KANN; 5. THE BIASED MODALS: SOLL AND MAG; 6. THE MODALS IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE; 7. NEGATION OF THE MODALS; 8 .CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OP IMPORTANT TERMS AND AUTHORS