“Pode pará” – Modal Verb on Brazillian Portuguese’s imperative phrases: a semantic-pragmatic analysis

In this paper, we suggest a semantic-pragmatic interpretation for Imperative Sentences (Imp) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) using the modal verb "poder" (can), differently from other interpretations verified in the specialized literature, which are: syntactic interpretations of Imp, or a fun...

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Main Authors: Ednei de Souza Leal, Roger Alfredo de Marci Rodrigues Antunes, Dirceu Cleber Conde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2018-12-01
Series:Fórum Linguístico
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/53650