Cynthia Allen, Genitives in Early English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 354. ISBN 978-0-19-921668-0.

Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), Modality in English: Theory and description. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. vi + 384. ISBN 978-3-11-019634-4

“…Jelena Timotijevic ('Another look at modals and subjectivity') takes her inspiration from the work of Papafragou (2000), arguing that subjectivity results from the involvement of the modals with primary pragmatic processes. Implausibly, like Larreya & Rivière (1999), she associates subjectivity with individual modals rather than with their particular meanings/uses.…”