@ARTICLE{Popek-Bernat_Katarzyna_Verbs_2025, author={Popek-Bernat, Katarzyna and Wiltos, Agnieszka}, volume={vol. 72}, number={No 1}, pages={92-107}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2025}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={The aim of this paper is to describe the means of the lexical and grammatical expressions of deontic modality in the texts of the constitutions of six Spanish-speaking Central American countries. Preliminary results of its quantitative and qualitative analysis will be presented in order to demonstrate that Central American legislative language presents a variety of resources to indicate the obligatory, permissive or restrictive nature of certain actions or dispositions.}, type={Article}, title={Verbs and verbal periphrases with deontic value in Central American constitutions}, URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/135292/2025-01-KNEO-06.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2025.154227}, keywords={deontic modality, Central American constitutions, juridical Spanish, corpus linguistics, polycentrism}, }