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El verb modal deure al segle XIX: modalitat deòntica, evidencialitat inferencial, (inter)subjectivitat i mirativitat

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This paper presents a study of the modal construction with the verb deure ('must') in the 19th century, based on two corpora (CIGCM and CTILC). In this century, the modal deure consolidates the inferential evidential value, which had already emerged in Old Catalan (Sentí 2017), and developed maximum subjective values compared with other Romance languages (generic inference and conjecture, cf. Squartini 2008). New pragmatic uses are observed (interrogative sentences) and new intersubjective (Traugott 2003) and mirative uses are discussed. We also analyze the values of necessity that still survive, following Nuyts' (2005) proposal: deontic and dynamic modality and a directive value. Keywords: evidentiality, modality, (inter)subjectification, mirativity, modal verbs.