The Periphrasis formed by the verb ir + infinitive in the history of the Portuguese language

Abstract

The paper focuses on the diachronic analysis of the periphrases foi fazer, ia fazer and vai fazer in the Portuguese language. The principal objective of this study is to analyze the temporal and aspectual functions of these periphrases in Old Portuguese, to compare its frequency and its use in the evolution of the Portuguese language.

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

Keywords

• Portuguese language
• diachronic linguistics
• corporal linguistics
• functional linguistics
• Portuguese periphrases foi fazer, ia fazer and vai fazer