Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The different modal categories in Late Archaic and Early Middle Chinese and their realization -- 2 The diachronic development of deontic modals in Early Middle Chinese -- 3 Modality and future marking in Late Archaic and Middle Chinese -- 4 Postverbal modals: The case of De -- 5 More on negation and polarity -- 6 A brief overview on the cross-linguistic development of modals -- Conclusion -- References -- Index