Portuguese Future / Future Preterit and Present / Preterit Indicative: A Collocational Comparison

AbstractThis study examines the collocational similarity between the Future/Future Preterit and the Present/Preterit Indicative in Portuguese. From syntactic approach, Bello (1847) claimed that in nominal completive subordinate clause the Future and the Future Preterit forms collocate with the same matrix verbs which follow the Present and Preterit Indicative tense forms, rather than the Subjunctive verb forms. In, the author attempted to show a corpus-based counterevidence to Bello's intuition-based structural explanation. As the result, he verified the statistical similarity in global collocational tendency between the Future/Future Preterit and the Present/Preterit Indicative. On the other hand, he identified some matrix verb groups that predominantly and significantly collocate with one of the morphological groups in subordinate clause. In the present study, the author discusses further, analyzing the additional corpus data, the Corpus Brasileiro, and comparing with the result of to seek more credible findings. The result suggests that, as in, the global collocational tendency is statistically similar among two morphological groups, as well as there are similar matrix verb groups which predominantly collocate with one another, though there is some minor difference in its lexis