Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Chapter 2: Review of Previous Studies. Chapter 3: The Most General Case: Yídìng. Chapter 4: Intra-sentential Resolution: Tiědìng. Chapter 5: Certainty Confirmation: Kěndìng. Chapter 6: Certainty Expression: Dǔdìng. Chapter 7: Causing: Bìrán. Chapter 8: Anti-causing: Bìdìng. Chapter 9: Underspecified Modal Base: Shìbì. Chapter 10: Addressee’s To-Do List: Wùbì. Chapter 11: Archaic Strong Modal Epistemic Necessity and Intensification: Bì. Chapter 12: General Discussion. Chapter 13: Conclusion. References.

About the Author

Jiun-Shiung Wu is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Institute of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. He received a Ph.D. degree in linguistics from University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A, May, 2003. He served as the President of Linguistic Society of Taiwan from February, 2010 to January, 2012. He is a board member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics. He is the author of Temporal and Atemporal Relations in Mandarin. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Monograph Series No. 2. He also publishes more than a dozen of journal papers and has more than thirty conference presentations.