Editorial Foreword Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures Glosses, abbreviations and transliteration Part 1 1 Introduction 1.1 Scope and structure of the work 1.2 Tense, aspect and actionality in counterfactuality 1.3 The pragmatics of counterfactuality 1.4 Counterfactuality and polarity reversal 1.5 Counterfactuality and modality 1.6 Counterfactuality and morphosyntactic distribution 1.7 Counterfactual speech acts: towards a functional typology 1.

8 The diachrony of counterfactual patterns 1.9 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals2 Corpus collection for the history of Greek 2.1 Corpus analysis and contrastive corpus surveys Part 2 3 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Ancient Greek (VIIIBCE-IVBCE) 3.1 The optative in Indo-European, Archaic Greek and early Indo-European languages 3.2 Counterfactual mood and insubordination from Archaic to Classical Greek 3.3 The life cycles of counterfactual mood from Archaic to Classical Greek 3.4 Diffusion and analogy of the counterfactual indicative 3.5 Counterfactuality transfer, subordination and the modal particles in Ancient Greek 3.

6 The past counterfactuality, habituality and genericity pathway in Ancient Greek 3.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Ancient Greek 3.8 Archaic Greek counterfactual modal verbs 3.9 Classical Greek counterfactual modal verbs, frequency and language ecology 3.10 Temporal reference shift and modal paths out of counterfactuality 3.11 Analogy and the morphosyntax of counterfactual modal verbs 3.12 Avertives in Ancient Greek: aspect, actionality and modality 3.13 Summary and looking ahead4 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Postclassical Greek (IIIBCE-VICE) 4.

1 Measuring the impact of register on counterfactual life cycles 4.2 Aspect, temporal reference shift and the counterfactual indicative 4.3 Counterfactuals in contact in Post-Classical Greek 4.4 Pragmatics, analogy and the alleged loss of the counterfactual modal particle 4.5 Reinforcements of the counterfactual indicative in wishes 4.6 The life cycles of counterfactual indicatives in high register contexts 4.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Postclassical Greek 4.8 Avertives in Postclassical Greek: continuity and change 4.

9 Summary and looking ahead5 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Medieval and Modern Greek (VIICE-now) 5.1 Counterfactuals and avertives in Medieval Greek 5.2 Counterfactuals and avertives in Modern Greek Part 3 6 The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals Cross-linguistically 6.1 The life cycles of counterfactuals in the history of Greek 6.2 The life cycles of counterfactuals across Indo-European language histories 6.3 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals Bibliography General Index Greek Index.