Vítor Míguez

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vítor Míguez is involved.

Title

Revisiting Modality: A corpus-based study of epistemic adverbs in Galician

Vítor Míguez

This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 40] 2024. xvii, 234 pp.

Articles

Míguez, Vítor 2025 Los complementos con en del gallego: Una alternancia transitivo/oblicuo Revue Romane 60:2, pp. 182–208 | Article

En gallego, un amplio conjunto de verbos transitivos muestra una alternancia diatética en la que el objeto directo es realizado como un complemento oblicuo introducido por la preposición en. Esta contribución analiza la sintaxis y la semántica del fenómeno con el objetivo de revelar aspectos… read more

Míguez, Vítor 2021 The diachrony of Galician certamente and seguramente: A case of grammatical constructionalization Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar, Hilpert, Martin, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 123–147 | Chapter

This paper addresses the evolution of two Galician adverbs, certamente and seguramente. Data from three different periods show that they had similar manner, modal and discourse functions in the Middle Ages, as opposed to their distinct functional profiles in more recent days. The theoretical… read more