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

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