Studies On Variation In Portuguese

Author : Pilar Barbosa,Maria da Conceição de Paiva,Celeste Rodrigues
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265142

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Studies on Variation in Portuguese by Pilar Barbosa,Maria da Conceição de Paiva,Celeste Rodrigues Pdf

Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated to research on variation within national varieties (Brazilian and European). Here, a multidimensional analysis that combines both the geographic and the social dimensions of variation emerges as a way to identify possible regional specificities and the directionality of some of the variants. Part 2 collects studies that compare the behavior of a particular linguistic variable across different varieties. The variable phenomena discussed concern several levels of grammar and are framed within different conceptions of variation, thus promoting confrontation of theoretical and methodological alternatives. Overall, the volume constitutes a significant contribution to the essential question of how to model variation at different levels.

Author : W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119096764

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The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics by W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa Pdf

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

Author : Mary A. Kato,Francisco Ordóñez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190465902

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The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America by Mary A. Kato,Francisco Ordóñez Pdf

Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this perspective. The works presented here either compare Brazilian Portuguese with European Portuguese or compare Latin American Spanish and Peninsular Spanish, or simply compare Portuguese and its varieties with Spanish and its varieties. The chapters advance on a great variety of theoretical questions related to coordination, clitics , hyper-raising, infinitives, null objects, null subjects, hyper-raising, passives, quantifiers, pseudo-clefts, questions and distributed morphology. Finally, this book provides new empirical findings and enriches the descriptions made about Portuguese and Spanish Spoken in the Americas by providing new generalizations, new data and new statistical evidence that help better understand the nature of such variation. The studies contained in this book show a vast array of new phenomena in these young varieties, offering empirical and theoretical windows to language variation and change.

Author : João Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Portuguese language
ISBN : 9780195125764

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Portuguese Syntax by João Costa Pdf

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.

Author : Miguel de Oliveira Jr.
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3111059901

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Prosodic Interfaces by Miguel de Oliveira Jr. Pdf

Author : Fernanda Lima Pires Ferreira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Portuguese language
ISBN : PSU:000060336354

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Variation in Ibero-Romance by Fernanda Lima Pires Ferreira Pdf

Author : Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429638527

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Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan by Karen V. Beaman,Isabelle Buchstaller Pdf

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker. Building on the work of Wagner and Buchstaller (2018), the present collection offers a critical examination of the theoretical implications of panel research across a range of geographic regions and time periods. The volume seeks to offer a way forward in the debates circling about the phenomenon of later-life language change, drawing on contributions from a variety of linguistic disciplines to examine critical topics such as the effect of linguistic architecture, the roles of mobility and identity construction, and the impact of frequency effects. Taken together, this edited collection both informs and pushes forward key questions on the nature of lifespan change, making this key reading for students and researchers in cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Author : W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118791851

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The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics by W. Leo Wetzels,Sergio Menuzzi,João Costa Pdf

The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages

Author : João Costa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197396

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Subject Positions and Interfaces by João Costa Pdf

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery. It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met: i) The position is made available by syntax; ii) The position does not violate any interface condition. In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface. The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role.

Author : Sonia Frota,Pilar Prieto i Vives
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199685332

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Intonation in Romance by Sonia Frota,Pilar Prieto i Vives Pdf

This text offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. The analyses all use the Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology and the ToBI transcription system, and have been carried out by groups of well-known experts in the field.

Author : David Sankoff,Henrietta Cedergren
Publisher : Carbondale (Ill.] ; Edmonton : Linguistic Research
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015001198632

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Variation Omnibus by David Sankoff,Henrietta Cedergren Pdf

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110405958

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Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics by Johannes Kabatek,Albert Wall Pdf

This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spoken Portuguese”, and the project “Towards a History of Brazilian Portuguese” (PHPB), among others. Further chapters of high contemporary interest and relevance include the study of linguistic policies and psycholinguistics. The manual offers theoretical insights of general interest, not least since many chapters present the linguistic data in the light of a combination of formal, functional, generative and sociolinguistic approaches. This rather unique feature of the volume is achieved by the double authorship of some of the relevant chapters, thus bringing together and synthesizing different perspectives.

Author : Karina Veronica Molsing,Cristina Becker Lopes Perna,Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261502

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Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language by Karina Veronica Molsing,Cristina Becker Lopes Perna,Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños Pdf

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely dedicated to Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL). This volume showcases the breadth of research being carried out on topics ranging from the acquisition of aspects from the main language modules (syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics) to applied perspectives involving corpus-based approaches and experimental methodologies. Moreover, we present studies addressing a variety of learning contexts and learner types. The target audience includes researching scholars with a background in second language acquisition studies interested in learning more about the acquisition of Portuguese as an Additional Language from linguistic perspectives.

Author : Marisa Cruz,Sonia Frota
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1800501471

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Prosodic Variation (with)in Languages by Marisa Cruz,Sonia Frota Pdf

This volume focuses on research on prosodic variation, comprising intonation, prosodic phrasing, and segmental phenomena that are prosodically motivated or constrained, in several languages and language varieties. Besides Portuguese (European, Brazilian, and African varieties), the book covers another three unrelated languages and their varieties: Romanian, Arabic, and Assamese (spoken in India and Bangladesh). Language coverage is thus diverse, including understudied languages/varieties. The approaches followed are both experimental and theoretical. All the chapters share a common goal: to add to the knowledge of prosodic variation in each of the languages and varieties studied, and to contribute to the understanding of prosodic grammar, in general.

Author : Manfred Krug,Julia Schlüter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107469846

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Research Methods in Language Variation and Change by Manfred Krug,Julia Schlüter Pdf

Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus. Containing 23 chapters, each devoted to a different research method, this volume brings together the expertise and insight of a range of established practitioners. The chapters are arranged in three parts, devoted to three different stages of empirical research: data collection, analysis and evaluation. In addition to detailed step-by-step introductions and illustrative case studies focusing on variation and change in English, each chapter addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the methodology and concludes with suggestions for further reading. This systematic, state-of-the-art survey is ideal for both novice researchers and professionals interested in extending their methodological repertoires. The book also has a companion website which provides readers with further information, links, resources, demonstrations, exercises and case studies related to each chapter.