Change in Portuguese verbal system: the variants of conditional and the issue of grammaticalization
Recent studies have focused the grammaticalization of the verb of movement ir (to go) into an auxiliary verb. This paper shows that in Brazilian Portuguese this auxiliary occurs not only in the expression of the future (time) but also in variation with the conditional; it also shows that the use of...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal Fluminense
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Gragoatá |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/302 |