Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics.Ongoing research includes opinion and sentiment in text, coherence in multimodal documents, and cataphoric relations.Radoslava Trnavac is a Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Program (Simon Fraser University, Canada). She works in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis. Her current research addresses the interaction between coherence, cataphora, and event structure.Contributors include: Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Baptiste Chardon, Anastasia Giannakidou, Cliff Goddard, Oliver Gros, Yannick Matthieu, Jacques Moeschler, Vladimir Popescu, Ted Sanders, Manfred Stede, Ninke Stukker, and Michele Zappavigna.

• Introduction: Nonveridicality and Evaluation across Disciplinary BoundariesMaite Taboada and Radoslava TrnavacPart 1: Evaluation and Nonveridicality in Semantics1 (Non)veridicality, Evaluation, and Event Actualization: Evidence from the Subjunctive in Relative ClausesAnastasia Giannakidou2 Have to, Have Got to, and Must: NSM Analyses of English Modal Verbs of ‘Necessity’Cliff Goddard3 How ‘Logical’ are Logical Words? Negation and its Descriptive vs. Metalinguistic UsesJacques MoeschlerPart 2: Evaluation, Nonveridicality and Coherence in Computational Modelling4 Determining Negation Scope in German and English Medical DiagnosesOliver Gros and Manfred Stede5 Assessing Opinions in Texts: Does Discourse Really Matter?Farah Benamara, Vladimir Popescu, Baptiste Chardon, Nicholas Asher, and Yannick MathieuPart 3: Corpus Studies on Evaluation and Coherence in Nonveridical Contexts6 Subjectivity and Prototype Structure in Causal Connective Use across Discourse ContextsNinke Stukker and Ted Sanders7 ‘If You Do It too then RT and Say #Idoit2’: The Co-Patterning of Contingency and Evaluation in MicrobloggingMichele ZappavignaIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names