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Preliminary Recommendations

Finiteness

This feature can be unproblematically inferred from the feature Mood, as the schema below clearly shows. The redundant application of these two features to Portuguese could be represented as follows:

Verb-form/Mood Finiteness
indicative finite
subjunctive finite
imperative finite
conditional finite
infinitive non-finite
participle non-finite

The feature Finiteness is therefore not required by the Portuguese language.