Books: Apprehensional Constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Faller, Vuillermet, and Schultze-Berndt (eds.) (2026)
The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau
