8 (In)vulnerable inflected infinitives as complements to modals Evidence from Galician and Romeyka Ioanna Sitaridou 8.1 Introduction As is well known in the generative literature, at least since Raposo (1987), an inflected infinitive is used in European Portuguese (EP) in the contexts shown in (1): (1) a. subject clauses; b. complement subcategorized by epistemics/declaratives; c. complement subcategorized by factives/causatives/perception verbs; d. adjunct clauses introduced by a preposition/complementizer. From the list in (1) the classes of predicates that are missing are modals and volitionals. While it is true that inflected infinitives as complements to modals and volitionals are ungrammatical in prescriptive contemporary EP, it neverthe- less remains an open issue whether they are used in some varieties of EP. In fact, as shown by Fiéis and Madeira (2014a) and Pires et al. (2011), inflected infinitives can appear as complements to modals (2) and volitionals (3) in certain varieties of Portuguese (e.g. spoken European Portuguese or Mozambican Portuguese): (2) Então podem levar um panito caseiro (nonstandard EP) 1 then can.3 take. a bread. home-made do forno, e levarem coentros. of.the oven and take..3 corianders ‘They could then take a home-made small bread from the oven and take corianders.’ (Fiéis and Madeira 2014a: 261) ¹ The authors do not provide any further information as to what sort of variety of Portuguese allows (2). Ioanna Sitaridou, (In)vulnerable inflected infinitives as complements to modals: Evidence from Galician and Romeyka In: Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change. Edited by: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Thórhallur Eythórsson, Oxford University Press (2021). © Ioanna Sitaridou. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198832584.003.0008