Sintaxe e semântica do futuro do subjuntivo

The Portuguese future subjunctive

“…Accordingly, the common denominator of the Portuguese subjunctive mood is that it has a projection into the future, describing events that still not have been accomplished. Perini (1978) argues that the future subjunctive mood should not be considered a subjunctive form at all, but rather an alternative verb form of the future indicative. The main reason for this position is that the future subjunctive and the main clause verb are claimed to share the same temporal profile: "these clauses are submitted to an obligatory correlation, which makes the tense of the main clause and the subordinate clause identical" (Perini, 1978, p. 21).…”

“…According to Perini (1978), Examples (3-6) lead to the conclusion that there is no substantial difference between the future indicative and the future subjunctive. The future subjunctive has exactly the same meaning as the future indicative would have if it could occur in the context of Examples (4) and (6).…”

“…Moreover, Perini (1978) discusses the fact that Portuguese frequently allows the present tense for descriptions of the future, e.g., quando sair, levo guarda-chuva ('when I go out-fut.subj, I bring-pres.ind an umbrella). In order to account for this structure, Perini (1978) postulates underlying grammatical structures for the verb levar ('to bring'). Accordingly, the structure future subjunctive + MAIN CLAUSE WITH PRESENT TENSE is explained by the notion that it represents the transformation from a deep structure to a surface structure.…”

“…Section (2) describes the distribution of the Portuguese future subjunctive. Moreover, it discusses the findings in previous studies on the Portuguese future subjunctive (e.g., Comrie & Holmback, 1984;Perini, 1978). Section (3) refers to the perspective taken in the present paper, giving special attention to the relation between the subjunctive mood and the concept of dominion.…”

“…One would expect the Portuguese future subjunctive to be of particular interest for scholars analysing the semantics of the subjunctive mood, particularly in relation to the subjunctive mood in the Romance languages. In fact, however, there are few studies related to this verb form (e.g., Comrie & Holmback, 1984;Perini, 1978) in this regard, and those that do exist, despite bringing interesting analyses, are somewhat out-of-date, having investigated the matter using such theoretical tools as transformational rules. As a consequence, the focus in these studies is mainly on distributional patterns and on underlying structures, rather than on the aim of finding semantic explanations for the future subjunctive mood.…”