O infinitivo flexionado em português brasileiro

Abstract

In Brazilian Portuguese, two types of reduced sentences of infinitive are existing: one that includes a personal number morphology and one without any inflection. The inflected infinitive, called personal infinitive or inflected infinitive has been for a long time a problem for researchers on language, fact that left some questions remaining. Our study aims to present some of these problems on the grammatical tradition, which did not find an harmonious way to describe the contexts of bending infinitives occurrence, either by linguistics, which does not adopt a unified theory, since many researches address the problem differently. For this reason, we will cover the traditional grammar and linguistics view in a way to present the problem as well as presenting problems that are displayed in each of these fields of study. Later, we will try to verify if Raposo's paper on the inflected infinitives supports the examples found in the Corpus LLIC-PostLetrasUsp and in what way the results of a trial test can be evaluated in this perspective. Some questions that remain unanswered are raised: the question of the subject's elevation in the structure in sentences with auxiliary verb (aspectual and modal); the nature of the preposition that accompanies the auxiliary aspectual verbs, the double verbal agreement (of the verbal locution) with one only subject; and the verbal agreement of the main verb of the verbal locution with the subjetc trace.