On modal concord in Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v11i2.10474Keywords:
concordância modal; modalidade; quantificação; verbos auxiliares modais.Abstract
In this paper I discuss modal concord in Portuguese. This phenomenon, initially described by Halliday (1970), is characterized by the syntactic presence of two modal elements which are interpreted as if there was just one of them. Based on Kratzer’s (1981, 1991) theory of Modality, I analyze Portuguese data and point out, in accordance with the literature (Geurts & Huitink 2006, Zeijlstra 2007 e Huitink 2009), that modal concord obeys
two constraints: a) one of the modal elements must be a modal auxiliary verb, and b) the modal elements must share the same modal force and type of modality.
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