Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations used in the present volume -- Studying the acquisition of modality: An introduction -- Requests in first language acquisition of German: Evidence from high and low SES families -- Gender differences in the acquisition of requests in Lithuanian -- Development of directive expressions in Russian adult-child communication -- Acquisition of modality in Croatian -- Competition of grammatical forms in the expression of directives in early French child speech and child-directed speech -- On the acquisition of dynamic, deontic and epistemic uses of modal verbs in Romanian -- Development of modality in early Greek language acquisition -- Acquisition of requests in Estonian -- Directives in Finnish language acquisition -- Modality in child Hebrew -- Epistemic modality in Russian child language -- Epistemic and evidential modality in early Turkish child speech -- The development of sentence-ending epistemic/evidential markers in young Korean children -- The acquisition of evidentiality in two Mayan languages, Yukatek and Tojolabal -- Conclusions -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index