Coping with stress is crucial for a healthy lifestyle. In the past, a great deal of research has been conducted to use socially assistive robots as a therapy to alleviate stress and anxiety related problems. However, ...

As the introductory paper of a collection of articles, this contribution has a threefold purpose. First, it briefly outlines the major developments of research in grammaticalization during the last decades, the most promising ...

In present-day German, the present subjunctive (Konjunktiv I) and the modal verb sollen 'shall' are used to mark reported discourse. In this paper, we aim at clarifying the semantic relationship between these two markers. ...