These papers deal with a variety of topics bearing on modality in a variety of languages and language families. While all languages have ways of expressing modality, that is, such notions as possibility, necessity, and contingency, this phenomenon has been the object of little systematic linguistic analysis. These papers are presented with the hope that they will stimulate comments from the profession. The papers are: (1) "Modality in Malay," by A. A. Idris; (2) "Subjective Modality," by C. Seibel; (3) "Modality in Alsatian," by M. A. Hessini; (4) "What Could Dekiru Possibly Mean?" by W. L. Wight; (5) "A Note on 'Can' and 'May,'" by C. Oh and C. Seibel; (6) "The Subjunctive in Spanish," by J. Miguel Solano; (7) "Modality in Modern Hebrew," by E. Dromi; (8) "Stackability of Modalities," by I. S. Shaw; (9) "A Cross-Linguistic Look at Future Markers," by P. J. Hamel; and (10) "The Turkish Future Marker," by F. Yavas. A bibliography on modalities completes the volume. (AMH)