An edited volume on Modality Across Categories has just appeared with Oxford University Press. Nine UMass alums and former faculty members are among the editors, authors, and co-authors of the 13 chapters of the book: Ana Arregui (2005 PhD), Luis Alonso-Ovalle (2006 PhD), Paula Menéndez-Benito (2005 PhD), Junko Shimoyama (2001 PhD), Hotze Rullmann (1995 PhD), Kai von Fintel (1994 PhD), Aynat Rubinstein (2012 PhD), Ilaria Frana (2010 PhD), and Lisa Matthewson (now at UBC). From the publisher’s description: “This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted.”