Publication details
Modalidade deontica e volitiva na linguagem legal (um estudo contrastivo)
| Title in English | Non-epistemic modality in legal language : a contrastive study |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Caligrama-Revista de Estudos Romanicos |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.22.2.103-133 |
| Keywords | completive clause; modality; Portuguese Penal Code; Brazilian Penal Code |
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| Description | This study aims to compare the formulation of the Portuguese and Brazilian Penal Codes based on the constructions denominated, according to Zavadil e Cermak (2010), as modally congruent sentences. To be more concrete, we analyze the antecedents of the completive clauses from the lexical, semantic and syntactic points of view. The first aspect consists in the classification according to the word class to which the antecedent pertains. The second point of view connects its modality values with the verbal mode of the predicator of the completive clause, principle in which is based the typology of Marques (2013), who divides the expressions that subcategorize the completive clause according to the dichotomy epistemic versus non-epistemic values. We verified that the modal prevalence, in our text, is a non-epistemic one, but, at the same time, we discovered that the occurrence of their individual modality's sub-values, i.e., the deontic, volitive or participant-internal possibility, depends on the nominal, adjectival or verbal word class of the antecedent. As for the third factor, we observe the influence of the modal value and the transitivity of the antecedents in the preference to the finite or infinitive completive clause. |