Presentació del monogràfic «Spoken Corpus Linguistics in Romance: thoughts, design and results», coordinat per Miquel Esplà-Gomis i Andreu Sentí.

The process of grammaticalization of Catalan modal verbs deure, haver and tenir involves a semantic change, a rise of new meanings and an increase in their semantic network. On the one hand, deontic modal verbs develop inferential evidential meanings, and, on the other, future meanings (posteriority).This corpus-based study focuses on the rise of future meanings of modal verb deure ('must') (between the 12 th and the 16 th centuries). We have been able to analyse the process of grammaticalization with absolute reliability thanks to the applied technology of the Corpus of Old Catalan (CICA and CIGCA), in which linguistic variation is quite representative. This study takes a cognitive perspective (Langacker 1987(Langacker , 1991(Langacker , 1999(Langacker , 2006Pelyvás 2000Pelyvás , 2006) that provides us with the tools to set up a semantic network and the paths of semantic change.Keywords: modality; future; semantic change; Cognitive Grammar; grammaticalization; subjectification; conceptual schema. Resum. Verbs modals, futur i gramaticalització en català antic: una aproximació cognitivaLa gramaticalització de les perífrasis verbals modals , i va comportar una evolució semàntica i un procés de polisemització ric i complex. Les perífrasis d'obligació desenvolupen, per una banda, uns valors evidencials d'inferència i, per l'altra, uns valors de posterioritat temporal o futur.Aquest estudi de corpus mostra el sorgiment i evolució dels valors de futur de la perífrasi amb deure entre els segles xii-xvi. Amb les eines informàtiques d'un corpus del català antic (CICA i CIGCA) prou representatiu podrem observar el procés de gramaticalització amb la màxima fiabilitat possible. L'estudi pren una orientació cognitivista (Langacker 1987(Langacker , 1991(Langacker , 1999(Langacker , 2006Pelyvás 2000Pelyvás , 2006 que ajudarà a configurar la xarxa semàntica de les perífrasis i els patrons de canvi semàntic que s'han produït.

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 (11th–16th centuries). On the one hand, the modals deure and haver de develop an evidential reading (inferential process). On the other hand, an epistemic possibility value arises in the case of poder, which is not based on any explicit premise. I show that all these verbs are subjectively construed in different degrees and argue that a clear distinction between the subjective values and an evidential or epistemic interpretation is paramount.

This work has been supported by the "Linguistic Variation in Catalan (VaLingCat)" research group, University of València (Ref: GIUV2017-397) and by the "Elaboració d'un corpus oral dialectal del valencià col•loquial [Preparation of a Dialectal Oral Corpus of Colloquial Valencian] (CorDiVal)" project, funded by the Valencian Government (Generalitat Valenciana, Ref.

Although the distribution of pronominal clitics in Old Catalan has been described in general terms (Fischer 2002; Batllori et al. 2005), there are no quantitative studies detailing the frequency of preverbal or postverbal clitics nor their diachronic evolution. The clitics appearing with verbs in the future and conditional tense (FC) are worth a separate mention, since these forms originate from periphrastic structures that involve an infinitive and the auxiliary verb habere, and which could appear as an analytic (dir-li he) or a synthetic form (li diré or diré-li). This paper describes the general clitic positioning and the one encountered with FC in order to verify the claim that they display parallel distributions, using a text from the 13th century, to wit Llibre dels Fets. This article analyses the pragmatic-syntactic environments in which the clitic are found, as well as the degree of grammaticalization and univerbation of the FC. Following previous work (e.g., Bouzouita & Sentí 2022), it is argued that the FC in Catalan appear to exhibit a more advanced degree of grammaticalization than the western languages of the Iberian Peninsula.