Portuguese verbal forms relevant to SF analysis.
Following standard Portuguese grammar, the forms are:
- Indicative Present: "está" (is)
- Indicative Future: "estará" (will be)
- Subjunctive Present: "esteja" (be.SUBJ)
- Subjunctive Future: "estiver" (be.SF) ← The Subordinate Future
The SF "estiver" is traditionally called "futuro do subjuntivo" (future subjunctive), but Mendes argues it's present tense + subjunctive mood.
- indPresent : PortugueseForm
- indFuture : PortugueseForm
- subjPresent : PortugueseForm
- subjFuture : PortugueseForm
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- Phenomena.SubordinateFuture.instBEqPortugueseForm.beq x✝ y✝ = (x✝.ctorIdx == y✝.ctorIdx)
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Morphological decomposition of SF according to Mendes.
The key claim: SF = SUBJ + PRES (not SUBJ + FUT) The future interpretation comes from the subjunctive introducing a situation in the historical alternatives, not from tense.
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An example with its interpretation and key properties.
- exampleNum : String
Example number from the paper
- portuguese : String
Portuguese sentence
- gloss : String
English gloss
- translation : String
Free translation
- hasFutureRef : Bool
Does it have future reference?
- isSubordinate : Bool
Is it in a subordinate context?
- trigger : String
What triggers the SF?
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Example (1): Basic SF in conditional antecedent.
"Se a Maria estiver em casa, ela vai atender o telefone." "If Maria be.SF at home, she will answer the phone."
Key observations:
- SF "estiver" has present morphology
- Interpretation is future-oriented
- Main clause anchored to antecedent time
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Example (2): Indicative present in conditional (contrast).
"Se a Maria está em casa, ela vai atender o telefone." "If Maria is.IND at home, she will answer the phone."
Indicative present has present reading, not future. This contrasts with SF which gets future reading.
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Example (3): SF in temporal clause.
"Quando a Maria estiver em casa, ela vai atender." "When Maria be.SF at home, she will answer."
SF also appears with "quando" (when), "depois que" (after), etc.
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Example (4): SF in relative clause.
"O aluno que estiver preparado pode sair." "The student who be.SF prepared can leave."
SF in relative clauses gets future/generic interpretation.
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Modal donkey anaphora data structure.
SF licenses donkey anaphora across clause boundaries in a way that requires a situation dref analysis.
- exampleNum : String
- portuguese : String
- gloss : String
- felicitous : Bool
Is the anaphora felicitous?
- antecedent : String
What is the antecedent?
- anaphor : String
What is the anaphor?
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Example (5): Donkey anaphora with SF.
"Se um estudante estiver preparado, ele pode sair." "If a student be.SF prepared, he can leave."
The pronoun "ele" (he) is bound by "um estudante" (a student) across the conditional boundary. This is modal donkey anaphora.
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Example (6): Temporal anchoring evidence.
"Se a Maria estiver em casa às 5h, ela vai estar cansada." "If Maria be.SF at home at 5pm, she will be tired."
The tiredness is evaluated at the antecedent time (5pm), not the speech time. This shows temporal anchoring to the situation introduced by SF.
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Cross-linguistic data: Spanish parallel.
Spanish has a similar "futuro de subjuntivo" form, though it's archaic in modern Spanish (preserved in legal language and some dialects).
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- Phenomena.SubordinateFuture.prediction_donkeyAnaphora = { prediction := "SF licenses modal donkey anaphora", confirmed := true, evidence := "Example 5: cross-clausal binding with SF" }
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All SF examples
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All donkey examples
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All cross-linguistic examples
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All predictions
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