Imperfeito: a broad-coverage study*
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چکیده
1. Introduction Imperfeito is an important tense in Portuguese, both because of its frequency and because of its undisputable aspectual import. Several researchers have emphasized different properties of Imperfeito. In this study, I set out to investigate actual uses of Imperfeito in real text, to assess the various proposals. It is my hope that the work presented here can be classified as theoretically informed corpus analysis, benefitting from theoretical insights and quantitative results alike. This paper addresses two different problems: (i) the meaning of Imperfeito in itself, i.e., what could be concluded from the individual analyses that made up the study, and (ii) the problems posed by a feature-based classification method for the semantics of real text. After a brief description of the study in Section 2, I devote Section 3 to the questions of classification, and Section 4 to the linguistic results concerning Imperfeito proper. In Section 5, I discuss the general description of a tense.
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