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

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?

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