Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to Modality in underdescribed languages: Methods and insights -- Part I: Contributions of different methods for studying modality -- 1 Fieldwork techniques in semantics -- 2 Studying modality through targeted construction storyboards -- 3 Discourse contexts targeting modality in fieldwork: A revised modal questionnaire -- 4 Using corpora to investigate modal-temporal interactions -- 5 Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages -- Part II: Lessons from case studies on underdescribed languages -- 6 On applying semantic fieldwork elicitation techniques to describe modality in Ye'kwana -- 7 Modality in elicited data and spontaneous texts: A case study of Atayal -- 8 Lessons from the field: Irrealis mood in Lung'Ie -- 9 Analyzing ʔayʔaǰuθəm evidentials: Evidence for epistemic modality -- 10 Parameters for the production of discourse contexts: Eliciting the semantics of obligations and desires in Mapudungun -- Subject index