Reprint
Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese
Edited by
September 2024
256 pages
- ISBN978-3-7258-2062-7 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-7258-2061-0 (PDF)
This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
This Special Issue brings together 12 articles featuring state-of-the-art research on language variation and change in Portuguese. The data derive from multiple corpora of Portuguese, representing different regional and historical varieties: (contemporary) Angolan, Brazilian, European, Mozambican, Santomean, and Uruguayan Portuguese, as well as Medieval and Classical Portuguese. This Special Issue brings to the forefront analyses of understudied phenomena in Portuguese and discusses the contributions of the findings to current debates in theoretical linguistics.
Format
- Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2024 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
free choice item; indefinite compounds; Old Portuguese; relative clauses; qualquer; contrast; connective; adversative; noun-based construction; adverbial subordination; language variation and change; usage-based grammar; linguistic analogy; intensifiers; Angolan Portuguese; European Portuguese; social media; text mining; language variation and change; locative relativization; African varieties of Portuguese; syntax; semantics; definiteness; language variation; language contact; tense and aspect; corpus linguistics; Portuguese; duration adverbials; pronominal a gente; language contact; Uruguayan Portuguese; Border Portuguese; morphosyntactic variation; language change; (indicative) simple past; morphological change; analogy; private letters; historical pragmatics; illocutionary modification; multidimensional semantics; expressivity; modal particle; pragmaticalization; Historical Portuguese; prepositional accusative; differential object marking; preposition a; psych verbs; Brazilian Portuguese; pronouns; variation; online corpus data; quantitative analysis; Colonial Brazilian Portuguese; Classical Portuguese; word order; parameter hierarchies; informationally marked constructions; n/a