Dedication -- Frank Palmer's publications -- Preface / Anastasios Tsangalidis, Roberta Facchinetti -- Section I. The semantics-pragmatics interface: Effective vs. epistemic stance, and subjectivity/intersubjectivity in political discourse: a case study / Juana I. Marín-Arrese -- Subjectivity, (Non-)subjectivity and intersubjectivity in English modality / Roberta Facchinetti -- On controllability as a contextual variable / Anna Wärnsby -- Modality in discourse: the pragmatics of epistemic modality / Leo Francis Hoye -- The use of modal verbs in interpersonal contexts: from semantics to pragmatics / Marta Degani, Elisabetta Adami, Anna Belladelli -- Section II. The syntax-semantics interface: Para/for-infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese and English: similarities and contrasts in the grammatical encoding of modality / Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles -- What's so unreal about the past? Past tense and counterfactuals / Lotte Hogeweg -- Modality of English conditional sentences: the evidence from Ancient Greek / Jo Willmott -- The expression of deduction referring to past time within the verbal group: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis / Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla, Marta Carretero -- Section III. Focus on modal verbs: On the status of 'epistemic' must / Ferdinand de Haan -- Some observations on (factual) could + perfect infinitive / Ilse Depraetere -- Modal verbs in modern Greek and English: what's conceptualization got to do with typology? / Evangelia Manika -- On the role of context in interpreting want as a volitional or deontic verb / Philippe Bourdin -- Movement futures in English and Dutch. A contrastive analysis of be going to and gaan / Daniël Van Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans -- Notes on contributors.