Citations:imperfect subjunctive

English citations of imperfect subjunctive

• 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.