Citations:Modern Portuguese
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English citations of Modern Portuguese
- 2000, Glanville Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe, reprint, illustrated edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 367:
- A distinction is usually made between Old Portuguese (português antigo, português arcaico), referring to the period from the earliest texts to 1540, Classical Portuguese (1540-1850), and Modern Portuguese (1850 to the present). There is sometimes a further subdivision of the Old Portuguese period into a Galician-Portuguese period (origins to 1350), during which the linguistic and cultural unit of Galicia and Portugal remained strong, and the Old Portuguese period proper (1350-1540).
- 2001, Laurel J. Brinton, Historical linguistics 1999: selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999, illustrated edition, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 218:
- The change from Old Portuguese to Modern Portuguese can be viewed as a movement of the inflected infinitive, born from the imperfect subjunctive, in the direction of the simple infinitive.