Ways of Expressing Future Time in the History of Portuguese Language

Abstract

The paper focuses on the diachronic analysis of the Portuguese verbal paradigms that express the future tense: farei, faço, vou fazer and irei fazer. The principal objective of this study is to analyze and to compare the modotemporal functions of these paradigms in the evolution of the Portuguese language.

The research is based on the linguistic corpus www.corpusdoportugues.org.

Keywords

• Portuguese language
• diachronic linguistics
• corpus linguistics
• future tense
• paradigms farei, faço, vou fazer and irei fazer