A5032085154- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Galician and Iberian cultural studies
- Legal processes and jurisprudence
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- linguistics and terminology studies
Uppsala University
2017-2021
UCLouvain
2021
KU Leuven
2020
This paper presents a semantic analysis of the Spanish modal verbs deber 'must' and tener que 'have to', based on their deontic uses in parliamentary debates. These have previously been described terms weak vs. strong necessity or internal external obligation, frequently without support empirical data. In contrast, we argue that notion (inter)subjectivity is crucial for proper understanding these verbs. Our quantitative analysis, which examined according to five variables related (tense,...
The principal aim of this study is to examine the Spanish modal verb deber ‘must’ in its deontic readings, relating it notions evidentiality and intersubjectivity. Deber has often been compared tener que ‘have to’ described rather vague terms, for example as an expression weak, internal obligation, but paper proposes that better understood intersubjective verb. Both quantitative qualitative analyses have carried out, with a special focus on in-depth study. It will be shown can convey...