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The Syntax of Portuguese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 611

The Syntax of Portuguese

Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language in the world, and due to recent interest in comparative syntax, the literature on its syntax has increased exponentially, resulting in exciting discoveries of a range of aspects that have hitherto been overlooked. This book provides a theoretically grounded overview of the major syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on the differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese. It shows from a theoretical point of view how different syntactic properties are interconnected by comparing and contrasting the variances between pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements, and word order. It also highlights how small differences in the specification of syntactic properties may yield quite different dialects. It introduces key theoretical points without technical jargon, making the content accessible to specialist and non-specialists alike. It is essential reading for both academic researchers and students of Portuguese language, comparative syntax, Romance linguistics, and theoretical syntax.

The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America

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.

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting.

No mundo da escrita
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 152

No mundo da escrita

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Formal Approaches to Languages of South America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Formal Approaches to Languages of South America

This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and Spanish) originally introduced by European colonizers which underwent processes of transformation giving rise to new, local grammars. One fourth of the language families of the world are located in South America, but the majority of languages in the region are still understudied and out of the radar of theoretical linguistics mostly because their gramm...

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics

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 spok...

A New Woman Of Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

A New Woman Of Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This perceptive, detailed biography traces the life of Katô Shidzue, one of Japan's most powerful female activists and politicians. Katô's activism initially was sparked by her friendship with Margaret Sanger, who inspired Katô to found a Japanese birth control movement in the 1920s.

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Variation in Language: System- and Usage-based Approaches

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.

Português Brasileiro e Português Europeu
  • Language: pt-BR

Português Brasileiro e Português Europeu

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-02-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Este livro sistematiza semelhanças e diferenças entre o português brasileiro e o português europeu no que diz respeito às suas propriedades sintáticas. Escrita por três importantes especialistas na área conectados pelos dois lados do Atlântico, a obra faz uma comparação detalhada entre as sintaxes das duas variantes, mostrando com muitos exemplos e explicações didáticas o que compartilham e o que as diferencia. O livro, que já nasce como referência, abre espaço não só para uma discussão acadêmica dos temas abordados, mas também oferece ferramentas para um aprofundamento no debate sobre o ensino de sintaxe de português nas escolas.