O passado do futuro: uma análise diacrônica do ir + infinitivo no português europeu

Abstract

The present work is a diachronic analysis of the future indicative’s expression in European Portuguese (EP). Specifically it analyzes 3 variants of the future Tense, namely: (i) vou + infinitive (vou comer), (ii) haver/ter + de + infinitive (hei de comer), and (iii) simple future (comerei, poderei comer). Previous studies about EP (HRICSINA, 2001) certify a cyclic process for the future Tense evolution, whose expression with the periphrasis ir + infinitive has been existed since the XIII century (LIMA, 2001). The study aims to observe the course of the future tense realization in centuries XVIII – XIX in EP, from the hypothesis that initially the structure ir + infinitive was used when the expressed proposition by the main verb would concretize immediately after the enunciation and, after that, the same structure has transitioned to denote future Tense, in other words, a posterior event in relation to the moment of speech. For that, the corpus was based on EP dramas from 1783-1877, available in the collection at Laboratory of Portuguese History (LaborHistórico).