The Origin of the Portuguese Inflected Infinitive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3336486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth J Wireback (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 544 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/344992 |
| OpenAlex | W2026543483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Two main theories have been proposed to account for the origin of the Portuguese inflected infini- tive. One, the imperfect subjunctive theory, claims that the inflected infinitive developed from the Latin im- perfect subjunctive in volitional clauses. The other, the creative theory, views the inflected infinitive as a strictly Luso-Romance phenomenon, without any direct Latin predecessor. In this study I adapt the imperfect sub- junctive theory to include purpose clauses rather than volitional clauses to account for Old Portuguese data that show a high correlation between the purpose prepositions pera and por and the inflected infinitive. Since the inflected infinitive is already established by the time of the earliest documents in Portuguese, there is no hard evidence that would permit a definite solution to the riddle of its development. Thus, this article is a re- construction of changes based on attested syntactic patterns in Late Latin and Old Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese · Infinitive · Linguistics · Portuguese · Verb · History · Linguistics and Language Studies · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |