Hacia una tipología de los actos de habla directivos en latín

Abstract

The diversity of illocutíonary functíons expressed by the Latín imperative and subjunctive cannot be explained in terms of the semantic feature "volition". A pragmatic study of Latín directive utterances shows a functional structure signalled by the modal predicate "MUST". The distinction between primary and secondary roles and the analysis of the participants' psychological expectations allows for a typology of different classes of Latín directive utterances expressed both by verbal moods and modal verbs.