A functional investigation of the construction "tener que" in data from spoken Iberian Spanish

• Grant number: 14/08093-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Sandra Denise Gasparini Bastos
• Grantee: Ana Luiza Ferancini Nogueira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to describe, from the perspective of Dutch Functional Grammar tradition, the modal construction "tener que" on data from Iberian spoken Spanish. Considering the classification of modality proposed by Hengeveld (2004), which takes into account the target of evaluation (part of the utterance that is modalized) and the semantic domain of evaluation (modal values) this study investigates the modal values expressed by the construction "tener que" and the contextual elements that favor the use of one modality or another.