Subjonctif et impératif en portugais : une contribuition à l'étude de la configuration linguistique du souhait, de l'ordre du regret et du reproche

Abstract

This article demonstrates that by analysing certain uses of the subjunctive in Portuguese one may establish a connection, of a linguistic nature, between acts which are related from a pragmatic point of view. One thereby concludes that the correlation between the acts of ordering («ordenar»), desiring («desejar»), regretting («lamentar») and censuring («censurar») has, as a linguistic counterpart in Portuguese, the coherence of one of the sub-systems of modal values of the subjunctive.