Summary – Portuguese grammar revealed in texts

Introduction 13

Presentation 17

PART I – BASIC CONCEPTS

  1. language and metalanguage 33
  2. classes and units 53
  3. functions and processes 81
  4. use, standard(s) and linguistic variation 131

PART II – CLASSES AND FUNCTIONS

  1. verb / predicate 149
  2. noun / noun phrase 21911
  3. adjective / adjective phrase 277
  4. adverbs / adverb phrase 343
  5. definite article 403
  6. indefinite article 441
  7. personal pronouns 459
  8. possessive pronouns 513
  9. demonstrative pronouns 531
  10. indefinite pronouns 553
  11. relative pronouns / adjective subordinate clauses 639
  12. numbers 677

13 prepositions 725

  1. coordination / coordinating conjunctions / coordinate clauses 799
  2. temporal adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

temporal adverbial subordinate clauses 851

  1. causal adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

subordinate adverb causal sentences 875

  1. conditional adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

Conditional adjective subordinate clauses 907

  1. subordinate adverbial concessional conjunctions /

adverbial subordinate clauses concessive 947

  1. consecutive adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

consecutive adverbial subordinate clauses 989

  1. final adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

final adverbial subordinate clauses 1001

  1. comparative adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

comparative adverbial clauses 1021

  1. conformative adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

Congenital adverbial subordinate clauses 1051

  1. proportional adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

proportional adverbial subordinate clauses 1059

  1. modal adverbial subordinating conjunctions /

modal adverbial clauses 1075

  1. integrated conjunctions / substantive subordinate clauses 1085
  2. interjection 1117
  3. language figures 1131

PART III -FOR CONSULTATION

  1. gender and number of nouns 1195
  2. verb syntax 1239
  3. verb conjugation 1263
  4. adjectives and compound adjectives 1297
  5. derivational prefix 1315

Glossary 1325

Bibliographic references 1343

Works analysed 1353

Index 1391