Ponto de referência: análise tipológica dos pretéritos mais-que-perfeito e perfeito do indicativo e imperfeito do subjuntivo

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the point of reference of the “pretérito perfeito” and “maisque-perfeito” of the indicative, and also the “pretérito imperfeito” of the subjunctive, verb tenses which present aspectual roles and modal differences: the former are perfective, realis; the latter, imperfective, irrealis. A typology that encompasses semantic (temporal, discursive, and assumed), and pragmatic (shared) points of reference will be applied to the indicative forms; this proposal is expanded in the analysis of the “imperfeito” of the subjunctive: the time point of reference has turned into time-mode, and the discursive and assumed were considered in relation to the discursive topic. This research wishes to demonstrate that verbal forms are also interpreted in terms of a reference ascriber (point of reference) that may be found either in the linguistic context (reference semantically ascribed) or in the extra-linguistic context (reference pragmatically ascribed).