Andreu Sentí
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andreu Sentí plays a role.
Articles
2022 The rise of the evidential readings of the Catalan periphrasis deure + infinitive From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates, Garachana Camarero, Mar, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch (eds.), pp. 63–85 | Chapter
In Romance, epistemic readings of modal verbs have traditionally been dealt with in terms of probability or epistemic commitment of the speaker (Spanish deber, French devoir, Italian dovere). Over the last years, new contributions have suggested the shared epistemic and evidential nature of… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan: A diachronic cognitive approach to the semantics of modal verbs Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 145–164 | Chapter
Epistemic modality and evidentiality are two categories that have not been clearly defined in the literature. In order to clarify the boundaries between them, I draw a detailed semantic map for Catalan modal verbs deure (‘must’), haver de (‘have to’) and poder (‘can/may’) in the Old period… read more
2014 Composició patrimonial i sintagmació / Vernacular Compounding and Syntagmatic Compounding Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view, Cabré, Teresa, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà (eds.), pp. 85–114 | Article
This chapter focuses on both syntagmatic (i.e. a neologism made by following syntactic rules) and vernacular compounding (i.e. a neologism made by following lexical rules). We have studied both kinds of neologisms collected in all Catalan nodes. Vernacular compounding is the fifth most frequent… read more