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Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post}

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, September 24, 2007, 19:54
Hi!

Roger Mills writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote: > > > Andreas Johansson writes: > >> >... > >> > Eu falarei - I will speak > >> > Eu falar-lhe-ei - I will speak to him. > >> > >> Cool. However, an alternate analysis suggests itself: unlike in > >> other Romance > >> languages, the reflex of 'habere' HASN'T become an ending, but remains a > >> quasi-independent cliticized verb, the proof being the very fact > >> that it does > >> allow other clitics between it and the infinitive. Are there good > >> reasons to > >> reject this? > > > > I'm quite very sure there are, but since I don't know exactly how > > Portuguese behaves here, I hope someone else can provide the reasons. > > > I'm not up on the intricacies of Portuguese verbs, but I wonder what > happens in those cases where the future tense uses a modified stem > instead of the regular infinitive? Generally, the same verbs as in > Spanish... Thus Span. hacer > haré, I'd suspect Port. has fazer > > farei (???)-- then what happens if you insert a pronoun clitic?
It seems you are right about fazer - farei. Google finds >800 instances of 'far-lhe-ei' and the Wikibooks entry http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Portuguese/Contents/Future_tense_regular_verbs Does not indicate any special treatment of 'fazer' in future tense + object pronouns. **Henrik