Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Transliteration and transcription conventions -- Abbreviations of languages, dialects and names of settlements (in Russian and in the respective Finnic variety) -- Abbreviations of linguistic notions -- List of figures. List of maps. List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Language death: current state of the research -- 3. Mood and modality: definitions, semantic values and their organization -- 4. Mood and modality meets language death -- 5. The languages studied -- 6. Methods of inquiry -- 7. Intensity of the language contact and the degree of contraction outside MM-domain -- 8. MM in the receding varieties -- 9. Toward a uniform account of the phenomena observed in the domain of MM -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendices: examples of elicited linguistic data -- Appendix I. Q5: materials from Eastern Seto -- Appendix II. Non-controlled elicitation: materials from Central Lude -- References -- Language index: Finnic varieties -- Subject index