MODAL MEANING AND PARENTHETIC USE: AN INVESTIGATION OF COGNITIVE VERBS IN PORTUGUESE
Abstract
This article analyses the nuances of the cognitive verbs from Portuguese, in order to identify which meanings provide their works in the field of cognition and in the field of epistemic modality. Based on Casseb-Galvão (1999), Traugott and Dasher (2001) and Barbosa-Santos (2019), it can be noted that, from being coders of mental processes, the verbs acreditar, pensar, imaginar and calcular start to occur as modalizers, with a visible salience of their epistemic sense. To collect and analyze these verbs, it was chose occurrences between the XVIII to XX centuries, in the Corpus do Português. For the collection and analysis, occurrences between the 18th and 20th centuries were chosen, in the Corpus do Português. The choice is justified by the fact that it comprises a wide range of language constructions between the centuries investigated. Through the occurrences, it was seen that, although such verbs express opinion, there is a continnum of more and less specific nunces, which allow us to define them as more or less fluid.
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