The Portuguese language continuum in Africa and Brazil / edited by Laura Alvarez Lopez, Perpetua Goncalves, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar.

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Online Access:Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete
Other Authors: Alvarez Lopez, Laura (Editor) Goncalves, Perpetua (Editor) Avelar, Juanito (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
2018
Series:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; Volume 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches for studying the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese / Charlotte Galves
  • Research on L2 varieties of European languages: from descriptive to formal grammars / Perpetua Goncalves
  • Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil / Dinah Callou
  • Portuguese and African languages in Mozambique: a sociolinguistic perspective / Feliciano Chimbutane
  • Angolan Portuguese: its historical development and current sociolinguistic setting / Liliana Inverno
  • Cabo verde: portraying a speech community / Amsslia de Melo Lopes
  • From Creoles to Portuguese: language shift in Sao Tome and Prncipe / Tjerk Hagemeijer
  • Directional complements, existential sentences and locatives in the Afro-Brazilian continuum of Portuguese / Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Laura Alvarez Lopez
  • The Africa-Brazil continuum: the case of passives and impersonal constructions / Margarida Petter, Esmeralda Vailati Negrao and Evani Viotti
  • Language contact and variation in Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Prncipe / Nelia Alexandre and Rita Goncalves
  • The agreement continuum in urban samples of African, Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese / Silvia Figueiredo Brandao and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.