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date: 10 December 2019

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This chapter surveys areal features in the range of modality and mood marking in two contact regions, viz. Europe and MSEA (mainland Southeast Asia), in the context of a discussion of general features and properties—language-internal and -external ones—of linguistic areality. It starts out with a general typology of individual borrowing processes affecting modality and mood markers. It then presents some convergence processes and discusses selected areal features of modals and mood markers in the linguistic area of Europe. And, more succinctly, it deals with MSEA, focusing on the case of “acquire-type” modals. The chapter concludes with some further reflections emerging from the discussion of modality and mood markers in Europe and MSEA on the role of language-external factors in the rise of linguistic areas.

Keywords: areality, modality, mood, European languages, mainland Southeast Asian languages, language contact, linguistic borrowing

Björn Hansen

Björn Hansen is Professor of Slavonic linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research interests are lexical semantics, syntax, and language contact. He has worked on the semantics and syntax of modal constructions from a typological perspective, with special reference to the Slavonic languages (Russian, Polish, and Serbian/Croatian). Together with Ferdinand de Haan he edited the book Modals in the languages of Europe (Mouton, 2009).

Umberto Ansaldo

Umberto Ansaldo is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His interests include the study of East and Southeast Asian languages, contact linguistics, grammaticalization, and creolization theory. He is the author of Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia (CUP, 2009), co-author of Languages in Contact (CUP, 2016), and is currently working on a book on simplicity and complexity in isolating tonal languages.

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