Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

desinência modo temporal

English translation:

tense-/mood inflection

Added to glossary by zabrowa
Jan 10, 2015 12:04
9 yrs ago
Portuguese term

desinência modo temporal

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Linguistics theoretical linguistics
As formas do futuro são acentuadas na primeira sílaba da desinência modo temporal, o que é formalizado pela regra abaixo.


Future tense forms are stressed on the first syllable of the temporal/modal ending, formalized in the rule below:
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 tense-/mood inflection

Discussion

zabrowa (asker) Jan 11, 2015:
This is a description of stress assignment in Portuguese!
Muriel Vasconcellos Jan 11, 2015:
More context? It would help enormously if you could give us more context. What language is this about? What's the purpose of the text? I'm groping in the dark here.
Rodrigo Cayres Jan 10, 2015:
Concordo com o Luciano. Poderia escrever ...of the tense-mood ending,

Ref.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tense–aspect–mood
Eu diria que tense and mood ending/suffix talvez seja o mais claro para um leitor anglófono médio.

Proposed translations

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tense-/mood inflection

The sentence would be:

'Future tense forms are stressed on the first syllable of the tense-mood inflection*as expressed in the following rule* :

(Note the change between asterisks.)

453 hits on the Internet - for example:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521214629
Robert M. W. Dixon - 1977 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
The derived sentence, (950), has a **tense/mood inflection** - whereas a sentence consisting just of an NP, as (949), would not have; this must presumably be ...

The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:: The Effect of ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1402043341
Natalia Gagarina, ‎Insa Gülzow - 2006 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
Age of Acquisition of Agreement and **Tense/Mood Inflection** This order of acquisition raises a couple of questions. The first question is why children start by using ...

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0080877753
2010 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
... which marks tense/mood on most nonsubject NPs as a partly parallel system to the **tense/ mood inflection** on the verb. Example (1) gives a Kayardild example ...

The Polysynthesis Parameter - Page 459 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0199762325
Mark C. Baker Associate Professor of Linguistics Rutgers University - 1995 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
... whereas modal categories such as 'try' and 'should' are expressed by a combination of **tense/mood inflection** and nonverbal particles.7 Mohawk has many of ...

Peer comment(s):

agree Rodrigo Cayres
4 hrs
Thanks again, Rodrigo!
agree Claudio Rondeico
12 hrs
Thanks, Claudio!
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