I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- I think - an English modal particle -- Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German and Norwegian conditionals -- The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics -- Negation and modality in the Germanic languages -- Expressive sentence types - a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation -- Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten -- On the use of brauchen versus müssen -- Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altså and nemlig -- On narrative declarative VI sentences in German